Quotes About Innovation

I don't remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.

Oh, I think Janie Bryant is a genius. I mean, I think she changed menswear almost single-handedly with what she did on 'Mad Men.'

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer's block.

I single-handedly turned NXT into the 'A Show.'

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy.

I've basically got an album full of singles.

I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.

People don't necessarily expect singles from me. They expect full bodies of work.

I had T-Pain on one of my singles before anyone really knew of him. I was the first one to put that to life of having T-Pain on the hook.

I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.

People are scrambling to figure out how they can prolong the life of an album. But as long as the shelf space continues to shrink at retail, there's just no room for them anymore... which is fine with me! I would love to be the next person in country to just release digital singles, but I think we're probably a little ways from that.

If you just focus on making singles, you lose the personality of the record. Because everything is not meant to go to radio.

Our business has changed so much. Do people even want albums, or do they just buy singles now? You sort of feel like you're the last guy manufacturing VCRs... but I really like albums, and so I like doing them. I'll be the last one making them, even when no one's buying them.

If you're a game company, you want to create a singular gaming experience, and part of that is doing stuff that nobody else is doing. If you're trying to create a game that feels different, you're going to create a lead that feels different. It's not going to be just another white guy.

I think an important approach for designers to take is to have a very - not singular but focused point of view.

I guess there are people who are like, 'Here's one thing, and I'm gonna do it,' but I can't. I don't have the capacity to have that singular focus. I need to try to get a lot of things going 'cause you never know what's gonna hit.

Before Bitcoin, I was just waiting around for the Singularity.

I am patiently waiting for the singularity.

In everything I do, my principal inspiration is the 1996 Belle & Sebastian album 'If You're Feeling Sinister.'

Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.

The problem is some of our riskier films just don't make as much money. But if you only make films that will just be commercially successful, then you can also sink yourself as a studio.

Whatever you do, don't sink your life's savings into cliche items.

I don't know how many movies I have made. Movies that pop into my head when asked are 'Momentum,' 'Loose Change,' 'Shelter,' 'Sipping Jetstreams,' and 'The Drifter.'

I don't like it when filmmakers say, 'Just come like this, sir.' I like to experiment with my makeup. I wish more filmmakers let me do that.