Douglas Wilson Quotes

So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe.

Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!

I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.

What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.

There's a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you're trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life.

What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before.

I always look for a challenge and something that's different.

For my money, if I'm playing anything then it has to have some sharp angles on it. It's got to have some edges that you can cut yourself on, otherwise it's boring.

I don't have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there's a lot of risk to it.

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.

I just don't like boring myself. That's one of the main reasons I did 'Ice Age' - because I'd never done something like this before.

I just want to make whatever is exciting.

If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it.

If I'm doing something I know I can pull off, then that's not the book I should be writing.

I love to push myself! Stepping outside of my comfort zone is what will make me a better artist.

Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly.

The terror of figuring out a new genre, of telling a new story, is what makes the job exciting, keeps me from getting bored, and I assume it keeps whoever follows my work from getting bored as well.

You are never quite sure how it will go, and even after a thousand games or so, that tense feeling is still there.