Lorenzo di Bonaventura Quotes

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

I think if you want to be groundbreaking, you have to do something that's never been done.

I love being the dude that does what no else is doing in the genre. It's exciting and terrifying at the same time.

James Cameron has always been great about changing the rules.

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

I want to create new value by doing something people haven't done before.

Believe me, what I have done in 'Company' has never been attempted before.

Cheap Trick have always prided ourselves on being groundbreaking.

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?

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

The most successful people are so original.

At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.

Don't follow trends, start trends.

I like people who push the envelope.

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

We did it with passion; we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has yet. We shuffled down and we did it. We did it in an unique fashion.

It's just exciting to be part of something that is brand-new.

What I have done here no one has done before.

You could use many adjectives to describe Silicon Valley; I don't think 'normal' is one of them.

We're trying to do something nobody else is doing right now.