“When you have an idea, you’ve got to get started. Next, it’s ’Learn as you do.’ That means, when you start working, you don’t know exactly how you’ll solve the problems. So you solve these problems gradually as they appear. So you learn.
Next it’s ’Don’t listen to others.’ When you do things differently, someone will always tell you: ‘No, not like that, it won’t work, do it like this…’ Don’t listen. Keep going your own way and forget the criticism.
And the last is the opposite: ‘Listen to others.’ Once your project is progressing well, then you can take other people’s opinions into account to have an outside eye that might improve the project.
Then return to the previous step: ‘Don’t listen to others.’ Because if people start putting down your work, you stop listening to them again.”
— Michel Gondry (via Michel Gondry: Do It Yourself!)