John Waters Quotes

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

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 imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it makes a kind of a bait. Ideas will come swimming up. And you don't know them until they enter the conscious mind. And then bingo! There it is! You know it instantly. And then more come in. If you go fishing for ideas, a lot of ideas will just pop in. And one of them will make you fall in love.

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

Everything's a film idea if this is what you do.I've always been secretly confident that I'd never run out of ideas,because I've never had any. I just live my life, see things theway I do, and I'm just looking for a notion to hang it all on.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas.

I start by mulling a question and before I know it, a whole drama is unfolding in my head. Often, an idea sticks before I know what I'm going to do with it.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.

In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.

Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.

It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head.

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