Quotes About Experimentation

I've never made a meal that I wasn't able to eat, but it that doesn't mean anyone else would ever eat it, haha!

A lot of people didn't like the 'Fantastic Four' for the first year and a half. It took a certain measure of time for me to find my feet in terms of what I wanted to do with the concept.

When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before.

There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before.

Yes, I'm working on playing with my feet, so I take risks.

In order to do something really good, you have to take risks - that's what I do.

I don't think I take risks. People think I do, but I don't. In fact, I think conventional-formula filmmakers take more risks than me.

I think a lot of people are too safe in the makeup industry.

Going out and trying new stuff on an audience is a scary thing.

Kids are natural scientists.

Children are just little scientists.

Nobody wants to take a risk with scripts that push the envelope.

We almost owe it to ourselves to go experiment in the consumer area.

You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.'

I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.

If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way to do it and do it. If you've been playing jazz all your life and you want to start to play rock n' roll, blues, then do it.

Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

You're still young. Don't panic. It's hard to know what you should be doing in your 20s. Try different things, have some fun, and see what happens.

Whenever I work with people who are nonclassical artists, I kind of get a kick in the pants. I think, 'How can I apply what I do to their music?'

For a while, I was drawing on good paper, but now I've gone back to the bad stuff. I put matte medium on it. If you put matte medium on it, it seals up, so it doesn't really matter.

Failure is part and parcel of the process of experimenting with roles and films.

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

Because I'm experimenting so much with gender-bending and listening to everything that happens to me in terms of genderless energies, I have a hard time finding partners that can match me.

When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things.