Labrinth Quotes

When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.

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

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

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

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

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

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

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

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

Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new.

I always want to do - take everything and take it to the next step. I don't want to just keep doing something the same ol' thing. Obviously, I could have wrote 'Mother' 20 times and made tons of money and be playing gigantic arenas and whatever, but that's not really what I want to do.

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

No one knows what's a good idea or a bad idea until you try it.

I wish more people would be allowed to take risks and try new things and new ideas because new ideas are what this industry desperately needs. I mean, how many shooters can you make?

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

Getting anything off the ground is going to require a little bit of risk. That risk starts with sharing the idea.

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

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.

I always do something that I've never done before.

You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.