Laurence Fishburne Quotes

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

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

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

There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.

The thing I'm most proud of about - not all of our movies, but a lot of our movies - is that you might love 'em, you might hate 'em, but most of the time, they're trying to be different or trying new things, which I think is really important.

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

If your idea is truly innovative, you're going to hear from the naysayers. After all, if it really were such a good idea, someone would have already done it, right?

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

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

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

I like taking up challenges. I prefer working with scripts that are different and veer from the tried and tested. So far, it's always worked.

To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.

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

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.

You can't reinvent the wheel. I remember when we first started out at 'Late Night,' we were trying to hire directors, and this guy was like, 'I see you behind a glass desk.' I don't. And he's like, 'Yeah, the glass desk.' I go, 'I don't really see me as a glass desk guy.'

You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.

I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.

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

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.