Emir Kusturica Quotes

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Think your own thoughts.

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

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

You can't have 'yes' people around you.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

I just like doing things from my own head.

I've always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.

I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I had not thought of before. Any idea that came to me, the thing would be to turn it around and try to see it with another set of senses.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.

Creativity's about ownership.

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.