Kenneth Lonergan Quotes

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

A lot of things you just stumble into: relationships or ways of putting characters opposite one another that really worked. So then it's not always so much about imitating other people, but imitating yourself, at least in your thinking.

I actually don't have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that all of the interesting ones will become something that I eventually end up doing.

I just try to do things that make me excited. If I can find a way to surprise myself, then that's when I'm really excited to share something and really can stand behind it.

I think the key as a creator is to just trust your own intuition, and follow your passion and trust that if you make something you love, an audience who loves it will find it.

We like to challenge ourselves, and having new material and presenting it to the world is fun and exciting and fresh.

I don't try to be original; I just always want to do something that excites me.

Any schemes - such as 'think of symmetry laws', or 'put the information in mathematical form', or 'guess equations'- are known to everybody now, and they are all tried all the time. When you are stuck, the answer cannot be one of these, because you will have tried these right away...The next scheme, the new discovery, is going to be made in a completely different way.

I think that usually I'm just drawn to something that's different from something that I've done previously. Whatever makes me feel something. Whatever makes me excited and connected to it.

Sometimes when an idea flashes, you distrust it because it seems too easy. You qualify it with all kinds of evasive phrases because you’re timid about it. But often, this turns out to be the best idea of all.

I look for that stimulation constantly. I'm looking for inspiration and stimulation. Not bored with what we've done.

Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it... If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place. Trust your demon.

I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.

In a weird way, riffing on genres is kind of a reaction to formula. When you watch so much of the programmers and the films that you just think you've seen before, it's kind of going back to the well in terms of trying to conjure up the spirit of what made you excited about films in the first place.

There is something more important than logic: imagination

I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy.

Trust your creativity.

It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.

Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.

You know, one of the classics when somebody invents something, you go why the hell didn't I think of that.

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.