Jimmy Iovine Quotes

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it.

I've found in the past that if we planned the show a night before, once we slept and woke up, we weren't in that mood anymore. Because I really think doing a live show means you should be exploring your live feelings, and planning is not good.

For as long as I've been making movies, I really don't know a lot of the technical side. I mean, I've actively and consciously tried to avoid learning that stuff. I just want to be open and receptive to what's happening in the moment, and I don't want to force anything.

For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything I have ever done. They are invariably without premeditation. I mean not only that I have no plan when I make them, I also have no plan to make them.

When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who's casually in control. You're feeling around in the dark for something that feels good.

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.

I know Charlie Kaufman really well, for instance. Charlie Kaufman starts a story, and he has no freaking idea where he's going. None. Zero. And he doesn't want to know, because there's a little bit of death in that.

Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do - that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.

As an idea occurs to me, I'll either follow it or not, but I'm more instinctive than master-planner about stuff.

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.

I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.

My approach to painting doesn't involve any heavy thinking about how am I going to present this, what am I going to do.

You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

I created 'You Can't Stop Me' without trying. There was nothing premeditated about that record.

Everything in 'Satya' was by chance. It was a film which just started evolving by itself. I just went mostly by instinct and kept on improvising on location, and the film just got made itself.

When I wrote 'Grand Illusion,' I was making it up as we went along. I wrote this stuff and tried to do the best job I could.

Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode.

I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.

The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led.

Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.

I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.