Quotes About Inspiration

The most beautiful products or the most elegant or seductive products, in my mind, are those that tell a story of a process.

A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.

Meeting kids who feel inspired by my story, it means so much to me.

Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

The Hindi film that connects with my life story the most is the movie 'Hero' - two brothers being lost and sort of coming back.

For me, the driving emotion of selecting a film is that I just love that story. It may give a message, it may not give a message - that's fine. I just loved it.

I'm always looking for a story.

I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.

There were many African Americans - many, many stories similar to my story.

2Pac made me want to rap, he made me want to speak my ghetto story and not be ashamed of it.

Does the prospect of seeing the Great Commission of Christ fulfilled drive you day and night? If not, then I pray that the story of my life will light a fire in you. A fire that will change everything. A holy fire that will convince you that nothing is impossible with God.

If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.

If you can keep something very personal, like a song, like a color, like a story, deep in your heart, then nobody can destroy that. Nobody can destroy your imagination; nobody can destroy your love.

I always like to tell a story.

Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.

To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.

You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

We storyboard a lot, but I love when we are just going in there and just, almost on the fly, making stuff and discovering moments. It's just fantastic, where you can really go in there and be creative and everything.

What I look for in a project is whether the storyline excites me.

I am very into lyrics. I start with what the words are saying, what the storyline is saying, like a good script. It should really capture me, do something for me. If I don't get it, it's not going to move people, and if it's not going to move people, it's not going to happen.

Offers come all the time, but I'm pretty particular. I really have to be wowed by a character I encounter in a script, or a storyline. I really do need to feel inspiration, otherwise I'm just happy planting perennials and making goat cheese.

I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the writing. It's one of the reasons I've never been comfortable doing screenplays, because in order to get the contract for the screenplay, you have to sit down and tell them what's going to happen.

The story of 'Libra Scale,' the storyline was created first, and then the music was created around the story line.

Some of the writers definitely got inspired by some of the story lines, but we are evolving in the 'Daredevil' story. So when it comes to 'Elektra', they didn't follow one of her specific story lines, you know. They really tried to capture what comes through the comics, but there's not one specific storyline.