Quotes About Ideas

In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used to happen.

One of the major aspects of film composing is that it's not so much a musical thing as it is communicating your ideas with the director, who often does not come from a musical background.

I keep a composition book with me at all times to write rhymes, to write down ideas, write down my thoughts, you know just so I don't forget any ideas.

For me, the most absorbing films are those that address big questions and real ideas but embody them in small examples that we can appreciate and comprehend.

I don't sit down in front of my computer screen and think, 'Right. Today I shall begin a story set in this or that period of history.' I just get ideas from the world around me.

Science fiction literature's focus is on ideas, the concept of change, and the impact on humanity. Those concepts are hard to capture on film. They work better in the mind.

I like to make songs that are based on concepts.

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.

A competition of the best ideas - that should be what Congress is about.

Ideas have consequences.

This is my advice to entrepreneurs. It's easy to give up, but believe in your ideas. Surround yourself with people you respect and are smarter than you.

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy chemicals to the brain, and I like that.

When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.

I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the world that man has came to him by nature.

Bob Dylan enabled rock & roll to grow up and survive. He injected the power of language and ideas into the music.

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

I get my best ideas in that state of suspended consciousness just before sleep.

The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.

Leadership requires the ability to engage and to create empathy for communities with disparate needs and ideas. Telling an effective story - especially in romantic suspense - demands a similar skill set.

I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.

Men and women do not live by bread alone. They also need sustaining ideas.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.