Kate McKinnon Quotes

I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.

The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.

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

For notes related to books I'm writing, I've wondered whether I should organize my notes better, but I do find that the action or scrolling through them and seeing odd juxtapositions of ideas helps to stimulate my own ideas and creativity. I worry that if I kept the notes in a highly-structured way, I might lose some of these benefits.

I often talk to myself while walking down the street. I did it as a kid.

Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and I'll find an idea to develop into a song, so my best advice is to try and draw inspiration from everyday things.

I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.

You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.

I do talk to myself, just not in a whisper. But I have caught myself sometimes.

I talk to myself all the time - it's something my children have observed in the car.

I talk to myself a lot.

I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.

For me, the creative process is this giant patchwork of information.

I think it's important to say typing in the computer is like the last, last phase of my writing process. That's kind of the fun part. Well, it's all somewhat fun, I suppose. But usually what happens is I think about a movie for at least a year - maybe a couple more - and I don't put anything down.

When I'm between projects, I keep a journal I call a 'thought log,' and it's my practice to write down whatever interests me.

Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually.

I have an office at my house, so when I go home I am always pulling inspiration and putting ideas together.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

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.

I just like to stay creative. Anything that can keep my mind going.

There's no harm in talking to yourself, but try to avoid telling yourself jokes you've heard before.

Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.

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

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.