Quotes About Experimentation

Zero budget filmmaking is frustrating but also liberating.

I love to experiment with my choice of roles. There's nothing to lose or gain when you do that. The returns are either zero or hundred per cent, but in either case you have the satisfaction of knowing that you tried something new.

I became a singer and a songwriter by learning on the spot, so think I always need to be slightly out of my comfort zone when I do something. I've never stopped being experimental because that's how I started.

I love to get involved with projects that take me out of my comfort zone. I try to do things that are not necessarily what I'm used to. I always wanted to do a big animation movie and stick to the codes that this genre sometimes implies.

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

As an actor, you always want to try something you haven't done before. For me, the uncomfortable zone is the one to enter.

Most people are afraid of failing. I think there's nothing wrong in failing.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring, but very interesting.

What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.

If you're not failing, you're not trying anything.

I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

One of the hard truths about the new digital world is that we have to be prepared to acknowledge when an experiment is not going to work, and to take action.

Being a great baker and pastry chef requires the upmost open mind. I try every dessert that comes my way!

Make your heart bleed! Put your soul into that damn thing. And try new things.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

I'm never satisfied. I don't think about what has come before because I'm trying to find something different than I did before.

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

I don't come up with ideas in a test tube; I come up with ideas by breaking test tubes. That's how I've always been.

I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not.

I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing.

This song 'All Aboard,' that tune allowed me to expand and kind of offer my audience something totally different because it's not bachata - I'm singing English, and that was really fun.