Petra Collins Quotes

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

I'm always thinking about stories and ideas, and I have a few I'd like to actively pursue, but as much as I love them, I love the process of creation, and I want to go on and create things for myself, and create new things.

In films, we tend to come up with something new all the time. Challenges and experiments are new at every stage.

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

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 almost literally wake up in the morning starting to think of my next idea. It's almost always driven by what's in the news. The hard part, really, is getting from knowing what I want to say to figuring out how to say it in an image. I'm still not entirely sure how to explain how that happens... Suddenly, something just works.

The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.

Think of the imagination as a giant stone from which we carve out new ideas. As we chip away, our new ideas become more polished and refined. But if you start by editing your imagination, you start with a tiny stone.

You must be very creative in our business. Creating in this business is making something new, but it is also touching on something old.

I think I'll always be making movies that intend to say something new.

What makes a book unique isn't always about having one big grand new idea. It's about combining many different ideas in new and interesting ways.

I am constantly thinking of different ideas and formats for TV shows. I am in a place where anything is possible if you want to do it.

When you are a designer, what's important is to be aware of things. Everything should lead to an idea, a line to follow, a movement.

When you're doing an album, you need to come up with something new, be creative.

I like to create whatever that pops up in my head, bring whatever idea to life.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.

I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.

To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.