Quotes About Experimentation

I find that I'm quite experimental. I'm drawn to the brighter and weirder things.

One thing I love about Kollywood is that, here, filmmakers are more experimental, and the audience is welcoming of it, too.

I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff - we love him to death. But if he opened up he would be something to deal with. Imagine Kanye West producing a Prince track? It would be banoodles!

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

In Strapping, I had experimented with a creative catharsis under the assumption that art doesn't need to be accountable for itself, but I found out in very practical ways that you are accountable for everything you say. Everything you write, everything you do becomes not only your identity but your world resonates with it.

We didn't have practical model rockets in the '50s. The ones we made were very dangerous and the kids that played with them didn't have all their fingers, and sometimes were blind in one eye.

I actually no longer use 'art' as the framing device. I think I'm just kind of practicing things, practicing life, practicing creation.

You need to make things and not be so precious about whether they're any good or not. Because I have a secret for you: they're not good. They're flawed, and you need to find out what the flaws are as fast as possible.

If innovations were predictable, they wouldn't be discoveries.

Try to put our guys in different positions, try some different combinations, et cetera, to prepare us for the playoffs, which is what matters.

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.

I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves.

Clocks around our house were in danger because I loved to take things apart, and failed to put them back together.

I discovered that I could do whatever I wanted with a negative in a darkroom and an enlarger.

It's OK when something doesn't work. It gives you another data point when things do work.

I literally learned everything I could try to do to get a date, and it did not work when I was younger. I heard people love musicians, so I took up the bagpipes.

Typically, you learn how to cook, but you don't know why. We were looking for a deeper understanding of what was happening to our food as we roasted it, boiled it, grilled it, chopped it, etc. And it turned out, as we began to really say what is cooking, what does it mean to cook, there's a lot of science involved.

And sex is definitely part of college life.

Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays.

The future of society is 100% dependent on scientific advances.

I took Second City out of desperation, and that's what ended up working out. It shows that you should be doing a lot of different stuff, taking whatever opportunities are there, to see what works.

I guess I'm part of the art house, but we really have to shake up our ideas, because we're kind of self-parodying ourselves. We go places commercial cinema doesn't go, but sometimes it's to our own detriment.