All great ideas are dangerous.
Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
I'm someone who admires artists like Madonna and David Bowie, who really change their sound drastically between each record.
Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?
When I make music, I tend to make music that are really over the top.
The minute someone says 'Oh God, you could never do that; you can't get that kind of stuff on the air'...that's the kind of stuff I want to do.
Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.
The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
Something about Bekka and Haylee reminded her of Candace's line between ingenious and insane. Ingenuity inspired their dreams, and insanity gave them the courage to pursue them. It was something Melody wanted for herself.
I'm a pragmatic man. I'll veer on the dangerous side, because I love dangerous subjects, but I won't shoot a show in the foot.
A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.
My goal is to make a movie that no one would sort of expect me to make.
If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull your punches and second-guess yourself and not do things because you're worried, then don't write. Stay home and do something else.
I admire artists who really take risks and aren't afraid to do smaller movies and obscure, abstract things. It would be really cool if my career neared that.
I would say Colin Jost is Kanye West because he takes like the creative risk a lot of times, whereas I'm like, "Uh, I don't know..."
It's great to jump into things you're not sure of and you haven't done and that are a little scary. That's what we have to do, as artists.
