David Allee Quotes

I've always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved. So you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward.

We finished 'Spaceman,' and before we were even done with that, we had already been talking about what we were going to do next.

Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on a single project from beginning to end is extremely difficult, not just for me, but for many people.

Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I like to move on to the thing I haven't hit a wall on.

I'm always thinking about future projects and at the same time trying to finish the project you're in the middle off.

And I think that, given the opportunity, somebody could really learn a lot just being around me and the girls because it's really nonstop, 24/7 brainstorming and creativity and just trying to get organized and really pack a lot into a day - being there nonstop with all engines blazing.

Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects.

I've got loads of ideas swimming round, and I've even organised them in a nice folder on me computer.

Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.

I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.

I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

I'm always thinking, 'What next,' even while working on one play or shooting for a film.

I like to work on a number of things simultaneously. If you're working on a variety of projects and if you get stuck on one of them, you can move to another without grinding your gears indefinitely.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

I'm not a believer that you have to write every day. If I felt industrious, I'd spend ten hours a week writing. The writing is going on all the time in my head; the trick is to capture it. Showers are great. Traffic jams are great.

I often write two books simultaneously. Usually one of them starts out as a fun experiment designed to give me a daily break from the real book I'm writing. And then that becomes a real book too.

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.