Rachel Keller Quotes

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

I think we shouldn't buckle up our creativity. You've got to experiment!

Give the composer time to experiment, time to try out ideas. Also, the time to fail. When the composer has very little time, the temptation is to reach for stock ideas - ideas they know will work and have worked in the past.

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.

I'd rather experiment than follow the same formula. I'm a curious person. It's gotten me into trouble, but I say, 'Why not? Let's try it.'

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

Definition is the death of discovery.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.

With any new medium, the full power is only unearthed with experimentation.

I think the philosophy will continue to be what it always was; which was, let's keep throwing a bunch of things at the wall, and see what sticks.

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

When you work with an actor and then you discover new things that are better, I think you gotta be free to be able to go with the new things that you're finding. I think that's very important. I have a strong idea when I go to shoot a movie but I also love to discover things when I'm on set as well.

Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Don't worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that's creativity.

I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.