That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.

If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

Novel ideas are unsettling, innovative concepts about important matters in human affairs is disruptive of the internal harmony that people prefer. There is a tendency even for the most logical and classically educated people steeped in rational scholastic traditions to assume that if any new hypothesis were correct, a scholar would already written it in a book.

The new radical ideas will soon be the old radical ideas.