Nick Cave Quotes

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

I don't ever think it's a good idea to try to recreate the success you've had before; it's all about chasing something fresh and new.

A lot of singers think all they have to do is exercise their tonsils to get ahead. They refuse to look for new ideas and new outlets, so they fall by the wayside... I'm going to try to find out the new ideas before the others do.

As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way to approach something, challenging yourself and never, never trying to write the same book twice.

As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.

I've been joking that if Madonna taught us anything, you've got to reinvent yourself. I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances. I've tried to take a chance with every film I've done - I've never done it the easy way, and I think that's because that's what excites me, is making as big a mountain as I can in front of me, and just trying to mount it.

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.

I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.

I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn't like for a long time.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

Being young is an advantage. You've grown up with games as the dominant entertainment. You have a lot of experience of video games. So what do you want to see that's not been done? Innovation is really low cost for you. You can afford to take risks and fail to execute new ideas.

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

I'm into creating something that I've never created before.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new.

If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.

I always want to do - take everything and take it to the next step. I don't want to just keep doing something the same ol' thing. Obviously, I could have wrote 'Mother' 20 times and made tons of money and be playing gigantic arenas and whatever, but that's not really what I want to do.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.