David Oyelowo Quotes

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.

I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

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

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

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.

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

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

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.

If innovations were predictable, they wouldn't be discoveries.

I would like to try to never do the same thing twice, and fail huge sometimes.

If something works, you shouldn't do it again. We want to do something that is new, original - something where there's a good chance of failure.

We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

What's challenging is to surprise the audience.

Projects you think are no-brainers stall, and other things see the light of day. You never count anything out.

Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

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

I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it... If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

Without choice, you have no innovation. Without innovation, you have nothing.

Creativity doesn't follow titles. It just comes from where it comes from.