M. Ward Quotes

Play is experimenting with chance.

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.

If we knew what we were doing we wouldn't be entertaining.

Creative processes are always very opaque. Afterwards, you tend to pretend that everything was planned and it was a strategy, but it was not like that at all.

All the films that I did, I didn't plan them. They just came to me.

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

You've got to let accidents and strange things happen - let it work, so it's got an organic sort of quality ... By trying to remove yourself you can see some fantastic things sometimes.

If you don't have a plan, you can end up doing some interesting things.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.

You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

I didn't think; I experimented.

All good ideas arrive by chance.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.