Quotes About Innovation

I don't want to only make the movies that studios will greenlight.

Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.

I've always believed in expanding the definition of what a Marvel Studios movie could be.

We never had a giant library or owned a lot of commercial characters the way most studios did. And since we didn't have a lot of internal resources, we had to find ways to be inventive and resourceful, which I think is a healthy way to run a good business.

Studios are often very nervous of things they don't recognize, by which I mean things that haven't been done before, and therefore, they take a really original idea, and they recognize the originality, and then they try and make it look like something they recognize. So they try to turn it into something far more procedural.

It was really inspiring to be in West London in the late 1980s and early 1990s, especially in Mark Lebon's Crunch Studios, where I met people like Ray Petri, Neneh Cherry, Judy Blame, Nick and Barry Kamen, Zoe Bedeaux, and Venetia Scott.

I like studios. I just don't like bureaucracies.

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

The hardware manufacturers, game designers, cable companies and computer companies and, in fact, film studios are going to ensure that this thing marches on. They know that they are going to make an enormous amount of money from it.

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

The major studios don't differ very much from one another as they all operate under essentially the same principles and pressure.

Of all studios that should be doing 2-D animation, it should be Disney.

We don't program movies. We don't run studios. We make movies.

Besides kind of like the Wes Anderson, or, of course, a lot of the European movies, most everybody in the States, the big studios, make pretty much the same film. And we're kind of held to Pixar standards, or Disney standards, as it's kind of always been in the animation industry.

I've got a design for an airship in my head, which I'm going to play around with. I've got ideas for buildings and studios and all kinds of stuff.

That is what a good manager does - you study and think and discuss, and you come up with a model of playing.

We were the finest. We were the best in the world. We were a department that people came from all over the world to study, to look at, to see how we accomplished so much with so little; and we did.

I don't study; I create.

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.

NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

Instead of studying what biology has already made, we have to imagine what biology could make. You can say, 'Oh, I want a cure for cancer,' but that doesn't tell you what evolutionary pathway will take you from here to there. What are the intermediate steps?

I will say there have been occasional times - not when I'm playing, but when I'm studying - that I have found a little bit of alcohol has been good for the creative process.