Karl Iagnemma Quotes

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

As I continue to evolve as a filmmaker, I'm going to continue to do different stuff.

If we can sacrifice something comfortable, that we're 'too good at,' that might even be holding us back, we'll have more room to grow into the person we want to be.

I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.

To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.

You can always affect things - so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won't be the same, but it might be something else you also like.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot.

To keep the edge, you just keep doing something new. I'm not gonna say that working is easy, but while I'm doing it, I'm just a happy little moron - that's how my girlfriend describes me. The fact that nothing might happen with those things is not the point. The point is, I'm doing new things, and I have a good feeling in my soul.

I really don't feel like I'm in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I don't expect perfection from myself. Just progress.

I want to have new challenges and write new crazy books because I think it makes me a better writer to be insecure and try new things.

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

It's hard sometimes to take a step back and realize what's happened because you're always trying to move forward. You're always looking at the next palette.

You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.

I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!

Without deviation progress is not possible.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

I'm trying to always do new things because if you stay behind and fight the future, you are just going to be left behind.

I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now.