Quotes About Idea

I'm pushing for citizen equality not because of some moral idea, but because this is the essential way to crack the corruption that now makes it so Washington can't work.

When you pick up a script you want to do you generally have a theme you're trying to work with, and then it expands from that.

An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.

The idea of the record is that it's a statement for working with a group, of a collaborative work. That should be visible in the music.

I'm rarely in a situation where, if you have a good idea, it's not embraced. That's stupid. And I don't work with stupid people.

I had this perfect situation where my studio was a three-minute walk away, and every day I would go to the studio. If I had an idea, I could work on it at the highest level possible.

It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up.

If your idea is not against your conscience or the will of God, go for it

today start with a THOUGHT, turn it into IDEA tomorrow, next day you will see it in REALITY

I'm not opposed to the idea of helping regions that are struggling to get a reasonable fraction of federal research spending.

You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.

The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.

I wrote this script in 2003, when I was a humble college student, sitting in my boxers and writing in my dorm room. And I came up with the idea of writing an action-based 'Snow White,' with this kind of Huntsman character as kind of a way in. So, that's something I'm sort of proud of.

When Facebook first started, and it was just a social directory for undergrads at Harvard, it would have seemed like such a bad startup idea, like some student side project.

The Buggles was much more a studio environment idea, which we never actually took on the road.

One of the amazing things about the Internet is that the content creators are the gatekeepers. We can think of an idea and execute it quickly, and we didn't have to pitch the idea to a major network or convince a studio head to sign-off on the concept.

The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.

It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting - well, they don't see that too often.

The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things.

To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.

A large part of the appeal of this novel when I was lucky enough to stumble across the story idea for 'A Head Full of Ghosts' was that I'd finally be writing a horror novel. In a lot of ways, the book is both my criticism of and love letter to horror.

This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

A country, a style or an epoch are interesting only for the idea behind them.