Quotes About Inspiration

It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker.

When I hear a great country song, I get chills and I want to cry. You feel something. And just sometimes that magic and the stars line up somehow or another, and it creates something that's really, really, really special.

For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got to be on the Starship Enterprise anyway. And the cool thing was - is I was the only person on this bridge who had actually been in space.

At the end of the day, I think people just need to start listening to their hearts and their gut feelings and their dreams, because that's what I did.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

I start a picture and I finish it.

Mentally, you can't expect positive things to start happening in your life with a negative attitude.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.

The best ideas start as conversations.

When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.

Those that start things have an advantage over those that follow.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

When you're directing, you see your ideas. You see them created right in front of you on the monitor and the sound stage. You get that experience all over again when you get into the editing room and you start playing with it.

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?

I always start a painting with the sky.

Wes Craven was the guy who gave me my start, from my perspective, for almost no reason in particular.

The fact that I can go to a museum and I can see one of my dresses there I start to think, 'Crikey!'

It's funny, because what happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.

Amsterdam lives and breathes creativity. One moment you walk into a building from the 17th century, and the next you find yourself in a hub of creative start-up companies.

I hope that I have had some effect on the fact that Israel is a start-up nation.

I try to drive my office more as a start-up of ideas.

We were always broke and always complaining about something and music came and gave us a reason. That's why we started Sepultura.

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.