Eli Broad Quotes

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

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 always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long.

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.'

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.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

I always want to do things that are different. I don't want to be doing the same thing, the same performance constantly, and it feels like most people tell you that they are the same. However different you feel might approach them.

You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

I think audiences crave something new. I don't think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells you that.

We stand for creativity and pushing boundaries and having fun with one's music.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

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

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

I'm into creating something that I've never created before.

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

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 it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.

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.

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.

It's always been very important to me to try to do projects which are breaking new ground.