Rick Riordan Quotes

Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

It always helps to have someone who can say, No, we can do it faster this way, or We have to break the rules, even our own rules, to get things done.

You are not always going to be able to knock it and run. You are going to have to use the other foot, mix things up, use the brain.

I work in response to the limitations of any situation and in relationship to what's possible.

As producers, you always have to go with the flow and be ready to embrace change, and drama and whatever happens.

Every morning, we choose between milk or tea or coffee. Usually, I know what I like, but I don't rule out changing my idea sometimes. The editing process is one of the most important parts in everyday life. The same is with my work: mistakes are part of the decision-making process.

Life is improvisation. All of those [improv] classes were like church to me. The training had seeped into me and changed who I am.

Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?

I love the flexibility of saying, "Today we're making 50-foot paintings, and we're going to have to join hands and figure out how that's going to work." But in the end, it's a possibility.

A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.

You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to roll over and float on his back, then you got something!

Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you.

Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.

One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

Instead of saying, ah, I don't have the money, just embrace it and do what we can do. And the scenes that we film and the characterizations in the scenes can come out interesting. And I really feel good about that, going into it.

To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.

I have a range, and I'd much rather do things the nice way than the hard way, but sometimes you have to use all the tools at your disposal.