Michael Bay Quotes

I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive. On the other hand, I would like to be versatile and be challenged to go in new directions.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

If you look at my career, you'll find that the same record doesn't show up more than once. I try to challenge myself with every project.

One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

Don't play the way it goes. Play the way it is. And the way it is every time you play it, it's slightly different. Look for something. So that's the challenge not to be bored.

All day long, I'm creative, and the second I get a little tired of any given medium, I just shut that area down and go to the next room. I just go do something else.

Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

I am always looking for options that yield something unexpected.

I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.

My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'

Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.

One of the biggest turnoffs is being presented with an idea that's already, to a degree, complete. That's not an adventure, and it's not a learning experience. It's more of a chore. Then you become a technician with taste, as opposed to an explorer and an author.

If you come into any creative project without questions, you're gonna bore yourself, and it'll show on the page.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

Government tends to stifle innovation, and it abhors improvisation. Any good military strategist will tell you that a battle plan rarely survives past the first engagement. After that, you have to improvise to survive and to win.

I think the best artists find ways to reinvent themselves. They find new ways to tell their stories, or they find new stories to tell.

The people who succeed are those who are aware of the rules; they respect the rules. But they make up their own rules. They create for creative sake.

Everyone knows we take our time. We're really trying to be responsible with ourselves in trying to discover ideas that haven't been discovered before. It's kind of an alchemy, how we experiment.

I love the flexibility of saying, "Today we're making 50-foot paintings, and we're going to have to join hands and figure out how that's going to work." But in the end, it's a possibility.

What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.