Freedom To Fail Quotes

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.

The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions. We do not have the right to rob our neighbors to make up for our mistakes, neither does our neighbor have any right to tell us how to live, so long as we aren’t infringing on their rights. Freedom to make bad decisions is inherent in the freedom to make good ones. If we are only free to make good decisions, we are not really free.

We had the freedom to make mistakes. That's something very important.

You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

When I first started out acting, I didn't have anything to lose. I had another career. If I fell on my face, I could say, 'I'll see ya,' and go back to working.

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

I need to feel like I have that freedom to make mistakes and to just try things.

I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.

While you're being creative, nothing is wrong. There's no such thing as a mistake, and any drivel may lead to the breakthrough.

People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do.

If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.

No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.

We have to allow ourselves the freedom to make mistakes, including cultural mistakes, in our first drafts. I believe it's okay to get cultural details wrong in your first draft. It's okay if stereotypes emerge. It just means that your experience is limited, that you're human.

My thing is, you have to let young artists be young artists.

I think a big part of my job is to make an atmosphere on set and have an attitude that it's about experimentation, and you can't do anything wrong. It's not about judgment, it's not about me kicking over a chair and storming onto set and acting stuff out and telling people to copy what I do. That is a style of directing some people have, but I don't understand it.

Just don't hold back. Don't be afraid to make mistakes and stuff.

The only way to do something interesting is not care if you fail.

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.