Quotes About Innovation

I worked in television now for a few years. I think summer has become a really exciting time for television shows. And I think it's become a time for shows to distinguish themselves.

The 21st century is a really terrible time to be a control freak.

In fact, one reason I am interested in developing things in virtual reality is that they're so fascinating. I can come up with problems that are harder than warfare to take up people's time.

One time I covered a wall with 8.5×11 pages of drawings, which made things feel a little bit different in the room.

Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies began. Because, really, a whole continent disappeared.

I think as time goes by you'll get female comics who are weirder - you'll get a female Mighty Boosh.

Every time I make a film, I try to do it slightly different. If you're not 100% engaged and interested, then it's not gonna translate into a successful film.

I think it is important to grow. Your fans are growing up with you whether you like it or not. You have to keep it fresh and exciting for them. You have to bring something new to the table each time.

... when I hear people say that penmanship is dead, my response: it's about time.

Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.

To be creative, you have to be wrong most of the time.

I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive.

That's how things are these days: everything must move aside to make room for the new, all the time.

I'm never trying to be commercial or accessible, or saying "let's do this weird stuff, but at the same time we gotta do this safe stuff".

I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.

Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

I helped develop Disney's) special effects department at that time, which helped very much when we worked on "20000 Leagues under the Sea"

We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.

The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.

Maybe now it's time to take some chances on TV and push the boundaries with what I can do on television.

The problem with new is you don't have time for the old ones.

I love the idea of changing my look. I think one owes it to the audience, to go out there and give them something different each time, so as not to bore them to death.

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.

I think any time you can go after an audience that isn't built in, that's the job.