Catherine the Great Quotes

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.

I don't know what the creative process is. I don't know how to trick it into starting or how to egg it on.

The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.

I don't know what idea is going to hit me when.

Ideas disturb the levelness of life

High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun.

When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

There's chaos out there, and chaos means opportunity.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.

I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.