David Copperfield Quotes

As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.

It's so difficult to actually come up with ideas that you really fall in love with, you know? That's the most difficult thing about filmmaking - and that's my main challenge in life.

Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

I think the only way I could make something fun and big is if I don't expect it to be.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

A director without a vision is a catastrophe.

Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.

Once the government starts forbidding things, then someone will come around the corner saying, “I’ve got it.”

If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery... and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.

When people feel safe, they can come up with ideas.

I believe that the constant possibility of failure or possibility of decision-making feeds your creativity.

I want to reiterate the fact that at the core of it all, I am a designer, a creator, and as a creative person, I will choose to be limitless in the extension models of my various ideas on design.

The easiest thing is to create something no one has ever seen before. There's a reason no one's ever seen it - because someone tried it, and it didn't work in the real world.

You cannot imprison an idea. You have to fight it with a better idea.