Quotes About Experimentation

I have a philosophy, a belief, which I can see in many, many other directors that your early work is your best work, because you don't know what you're doing.

We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.

Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best.

That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work.

Comedy is this weird thing. You have no idea why certain things work and other things don't work.

When you make content, you try things, and they don't always work. You learn from it and figure out what's next.

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you can make it work, rather than sticking to just one style too strictly.

I get the feeling that sometimes the ideas work very well when you're doing them in the studio alone.

I'm working on new techniques. I'm trying to find a way to make fresco that can be detached from a wall, and I'm trying to find new people who can help me work on a very large scale in bronze.

well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!

Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot.

Sometimes I think there are devils at work in the kitchen - recipes that are always perfect sometimes come out less than perfect and I can't figure out why.

I've always wanted to figure out how to do a walking story. I'd never figured out how to do one and have it work or be interesting or have anything that it's about.

Do you know what the costliest phrase in technology is? 'It will work because it would be cool if it did.'

I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my daily routine, I am so for.

The music that I make, the younger musicians are referring to it as 'stretch' music.

Our boundaries have dissolved, and we're going to still do things that are somewhat familiar that people like, but we're also going to stretch out and take chances beyond what we've done before.

It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.

Especially with Fantomas, i'm just trying to stretch out what the band can do. Figuring out, really, on the job or on recordings, what I can or can't get away with.

I've been trying to find out what my wheelhouse is as an actor. 'Gilmore' was my first job, so only from there did I have a chance to really experiment and see how far I could stretch; I went maybe a little too far in certain directions.

I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.

I'd love to do a book with scratch n' sniff pages and pieces of string and plastic attached to the pages, you know?

We built something very special with Gaslight, and we don't want to mess with that sound too much. But I've always wanted to do a record where I can put strings or organs or pianos or whatever on it.