William Faulkner Quotes

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

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.

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

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

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.

I'm very conscious of the idea of trying to each time present something that I haven't presented before. It's a challenge to me to find something new, to find something innovative, but it's also very exciting.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

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

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

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

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

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.

I'm a fan of originals and classics, but I'm also a fan of new ideas.

It's always been very important to me to try to do projects which are breaking new ground.

Imagine something new, or you will only go where you have been.

We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.

I will always do something new.

I wish more people would be allowed to take risks and try new things and new ideas because new ideas are what this industry desperately needs. I mean, how many shooters can you make?

What makes me smile is a movie where I feel like it is dangerous, or there's that fresh idea there. It's about learning and growing and trying new things and tinkering, all of those things that keep you excited. But if you're not nervous, if you're not on that boundary of the unknown, I don't think you're getting better. I think you're kind of sitting back, and I don't think you're advancing the form.

My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.

I try to do what has never been done before.

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.