Theophilus London Quotes

If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.

We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

Imagination is the air of mind.

I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is that you get to places you'd never get on your own. It's like when God was designing the world and decided we couldn't have children without a partner; it was a way of mixing up the genes so you'd get a more interesting product.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'

I've found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that's where many people cultivate inspiration.

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.

Sometimes a creative environment affects what happens within it.

I need, sometimes, individuals to spark an idea so that I can take off running.

You never know where inspiration is going to come from.

In all the stuff I do, I really like it most when I'm being creative and collaborative, working with people who have my kind of energy around me.

Every collaboration with a new person is like when you take a bin of Legos and dump them on the floor. All of the pieces to work with are right there. A floor full of Legos is full of possibilities.

A lot of my creative ideas begin in the pub, talking through possibilities with collaborators.

I really love being a part of the creative process. I love having an opinion that gets heard, and then it's all up for discussion.

Sometimes, you don't know where your inspiration's going to come from.

It's interesting to see what people who you find talented come up with, so you work with them. Sometimes ideas come along quicker cause they'll come up with something and you'll be like, "It would have taken me forever to get to that point!" Because you're talking together, your brains are moving faster.

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!

Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.

Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.

A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something.

Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision, and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people, and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give.

You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.