Kevin Feige Quotes

Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you.

You know, people come up with formulas who are uncreative. They can't picture something different so they can only go by something that's laid out for them.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Genre expectations can kill creativity. If you do something different, it will get hated. The best filmmakers can do everything on the approval list and knock it out of the park. For me, I have a hard time being creative when I have to color in between the lines.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting.

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even though you may think you're giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.

Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

I'm a fan of polarization. If you make something that is palatable to everybody, it's like making vanilla ice cream, and I think we have enough of that.

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.