Suriya Quotes

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

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.

I don't have a drawer full of ideas. I kind of look around and take notes and wonder what could actually be a whole movie. And each time, I think I'm going to do it more commercial this time; I'm going to get a big budget and make it. But I always come up with some small idea.

Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things.

It's fun to try and picture what exactly is in your head and translate it onto the screen. How you can take something that lives in my mind and bring it to life - but that part is fun.

When I started doing projects for TV, I made sure to participate in the brainstorming sessions.

We encourage our people to build their ideas from scratch, and we give them the resources - and, crucially, the candid feedback - that are required to transform the first wisps of a story into a truly compelling film.

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.

At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.

I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.

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

Imagination is the air of mind.

It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.

For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.

I'm interested in creating new work.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own.

My films usually start with an idea that I get while walking the streets. For example, I got the idea for 'Guard Dog' when I was walking in the park and I saw a dog barking at a bird.

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

A common misconception about how things such as space shuttles come to be is that engineers simply apply the theories and equations of science. But this cannot be done until the new thing-to-be is conceived in the engineer's mind's eye. Rather than following from science, engineered things lead it.

I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.