“Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up.”
Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming
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Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“Sometimes you need to make a mess.
-Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper”
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

At an event sponsored by the Center for American Progress, October 18, 2006[citation needed]
2000s
in a December 6, 2006 interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

“If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.”
Source: High Fidelity

Beautiful Minds (2010)
Context: Science doesn't always go forwards. It's a bit like doing a Rubik's cube. You sometimes have to make more of a mess with a Rubik's cube before you can get it to go right. You build up this picture of what there is and you believe it to be true and you work with this picture and you refine it but sometimes you have to abandon the picture. Sometimes you discover the picture you thought you had, that everybody thought we had, actually turns out to be wrong.