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Creativity Quotes
"The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences."
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"Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed."
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"A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same."
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"The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity."
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"I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre."
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"Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away."
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"In general President Obama's policies have been very, very skewed and very, very extreme. Like on healthcare for example, I don't think that trying to ram healthcare through was a smart idea politically, because he wasted a lot of capital and now he doesn't have any of that same capital with even his own party that he used to have."
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"You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else."
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"I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation."
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"You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me."
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"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."
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"We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world."
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"Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids."
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"There's no good idea that can't be improved on."
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"I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend."
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"We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy."
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"I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration."
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"No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting."
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"I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore."
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"It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea."
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"What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up."
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"Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes."
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"You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question."
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"The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented."
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"When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea."
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"However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice."
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"The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it."
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"I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery."
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"Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient."
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"Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun."
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"Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices."
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"I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense."
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"The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'"
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"I want to put a ding in the universe."
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"We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed."
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"One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual."
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"In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root."
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"A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence."
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"Its not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas."
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"Trying to force creativity is never good."
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"The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself."
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"I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule."
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"I find endless sustenance in the creative. I freely drink from the fountain of knowledge. I'm forever the student - considered the teacher."
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"We finally found out the technique of separating and getting information about where every train would be at any moment. Of course, I went over budget many times, because - as you go along - some things improved, and you get better ideas."
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"If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance."
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"What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be."
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"If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person."
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"I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue."
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"Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact."
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