Quotes About Idea

When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is.

Charles Bean is a brilliant director. I come in with an idea and try to do it, but I fall on my face. And then, he says, 'Wait a minute, there was a little moment in there. Let's try that moment and expand in that direction.'

The idea that cancer genes are sitting inside each and every one of our chromosomes, just waiting to be corrupted or inactivated and thereby unleashing cancer, is, of course, one of the seminal ideas of oncology.

I came up with this really crazy idea, this really small personal story that takes place in a universe that we are familiar with. Rocky is retired, kind of set adrift. He's very lonely in his world. His life has gone by waiting for the inevitable. It's not 'Rocky 7.'

I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening. I like seconds, and more, and lots of conversation, and I've always hated the idea that in a restaurant an evening just ends. I find that incredibly depressing.

Metaphorically speaking, of course, if I put a problem behind my pillow and fall asleep, very often because my brain went to sleep with that idea or the problem alive, very often in the middle of the night I wake up, and I wake up with a solution or with a direction of solution.

Ram Gopal Varma is a great filmmaker, but I don't know what satisfaction he gets from his tweets. I think he wakes up every day with an idea to play with someone's mind.

There's this idea supposedly that we preachers are supposed to walk about with sandals and ride bicycles. That's nonsense.

My idea of fun would be to review the customers. I could give some customers one star, so that restaurateurs would know when they walked in not to serve them.

I've always been interested in visualizing something, whether it's a memory or an idea you want to be true. I am a big believer in that. I'm constantly thinking of that. If I can't picture something, then it doesn't make sense to me.

America needs a big idea that plays to its strength. It should look to national service.

If you have a big idea and you go after it, you have to get the right team together.

I loved the idea that biology was logical.

The idea that I had a bohemian childhood is laughable.

America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.

When I came to New York as a writer, I was taken with the idea that you're only getting in on bridges and ferries and through tunnels. The idea behind 'Takedown' is that it would be very hard to get out.

I didn't like the idea of acting back in school. Both my brothers were into it.

I am interested in suffering and, in particular, the Buddhist idea that in pain, you can find beauty.

I loved 'Buddy Faro.' I loved the whole idea.

My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.

I don't think there is such a thing as an idea without words, because your language is your thought.

I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn't want to be going through. It was too much for me to process and all of a sudden I had this idea for my first feature film and I knew right away I had to start writing it.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Right before I left ESPN, someone suggested doing a NFL story in the spring. The person was laughed out of the room.