Tyler Perry Quotes

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

I think you can spread yourself way too thin way too easily, so when I'm trying to create, I'm trying to create ideas for projects and have a vision for other people.

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.

If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

I never had a lot of ideas. I always have exactly one that is the next project; the idea of a project beyond that project is ludicrous.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

You don't disrupt genius at work.

Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.

There are days when I'll write for 15 minutes and have to give up and move around, and I'll write another paragraph and give up again. On other days I get intensely - focused on the process, sit down at 8 A.M. and won't get up until 8 P.M.

I do what I do, and I do it well, and focus and take it one moment at a time.

There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you get to your desk, you stay there, you work, you think of nothing else. You write and you write, and in the end, you write something good.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

I don't know what 'genius' even means. It's just a matter of keeping your eye on the ball.