David Cage Quotes

We're not going to just duplicate 'Heavy Rain,' because we are passionate about innovation and discovery, so we're trying to discover new ground and see how we can move from 'Heavy Rain' and create something even more immersive.

I'm always surprised when you do something very different that people don't get behind you more, because you're always told, "Take chances! Stretch!" And when you do it, sometimes people get really supportive and excited, but sometimes people go at you because you've tossed out the formula.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

When you do something that people respond to, and then you start altering the blueprint for what worked, it's pretty fear-inducing. But sometimes, you have to do that, in order to push the boundaries.

You cannot make a difference unless you're different.

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

I never want to repeat the same thing. I always want it to be different from what I've done, and to be not quite sure whether or not I can pull it off, until I hopefully do.

I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.

It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.

If a totally new image is to come into being however, there must be sensitivity to internal messages, the image itself must be sensitive to change, must be unstable, and it must include a value image which places high value on trials, experiments, and the trying of new things.

When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.

You have to be doing something very different from what everybody else is doing, hopefully different from what's ever been done before - something that nobody's thought of yet.

The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can never play it the same way twice! (Calvin)

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make.

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

You never know exactly how new policies are going to work. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try them.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Every time that I'm challenged with a film I think that I haven't learned anything, that every film is different and that every thing that I have learned is useless in this new adventure.

I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.

Many people have tried to define science fiction. I like to call it the literature of exploration and change. While other genres obsess upon so-called eternal verities, SF deals with the possibility that our children may have different problems. They may, indeed, be different than we have been.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?

To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.