Trip Hawkins Quotes

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

I always try to do something nobody else has done.

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

One of my guiding principles is don't do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different if you can. The concept is that if you do it a little differently there is a greater potential for reward than if you the same thing that other people are doing. I think that this kind of goal for one's work, having obviously the maximum risk, would have the maximum reward no matter what the field may be.

I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in.

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

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

If it feels like you're aiming for something too familiar, and you're not having a primary new experience, then what's the point of making that movie? It's been done before, so try to find something new out of it.

I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

To do something innovative means that you reject reason.

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

Don't impersonate. Innovate.

Originality is a return to the origin.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

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 have a hatred of familiarity. If I feel like I am doing something I've done before, it feels old and done. I feel I have no choice but to strike out in directions that feel new - anything less just doesn't seem worth it.

The world of entertainment is, like the world of fashion, becoming increasingly populated by those who don't want to do things the same old boring way.

With my writing, I try to do stuff I have not done before. Each time I sit down, I want to have a new experience, and by extension, I want my readers to have a different experience.

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.

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

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