Rian Johnson Quotes

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.

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

It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.

I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.

Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

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.

The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant.

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.

A lot of writing is thinking.

It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

I use doodling for a variety of reasons: I use it to get clarity around a concept, I use it to relax, I use it to communicate ideas with others and get their refinement of them, I use it to map complex systems for companies, I use it to run innovation games for business, I use it to get insight on something puzzling me.

I have multiple ideas per day, all the time. The vast majority of these are completely idiotic. Usually, I just sit on the idea for several months. And if I have not decided that it's idiotic, then it's... might be a good idea.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.