Mani Ratnam Quotes

I love being the dude that does what no else is doing in the genre. It's exciting and terrifying at the same time.

I like people who push the envelope.

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

I think what's so great about making your first feature film is that you're so naive in some ways; you don't know what to expect, and you don't question things as much because you're just trying to figure it out as you go.

I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

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

I want to create new value by doing something people haven't done before.

Believe me, what I have done in 'Company' has never been attempted before.

My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover something new.

I hate to be the person that's like, "We're doing something that's never been done before."

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

I feel like so much of what I'm doing is making a road where there is no road and inviting people on that road with me. It's scary. It's scary, but I can't listen to the voices that are saying form is the only way, or that there is only this kind of form or that kind of form.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.

How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.

Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.

The way James Franco goes to new projects, he does it the way an artist should, which is with a question mark. Like, will this work?

I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.

I haven't broken any new ground in the form of a film.

Pioneering companies always try out new things and experiment with new concepts and new things.

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

Everything is an experiment.