Shonda Rhimes Quotes

Basically, I see myself as a maker of things who knows how to support other makers of things. At the end of the day, I am just committed to helping put good stories out into the world in whatever role is appropriate and needed for that particular project.

I think you always win in storytelling when you let the best creative ideas guide you.

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella).

I love writing. I think writing and directing go hand in hand.

Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things.

I'm in this business to be creative - I'll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

Part of the job is knowing how to use this medium in the most effective way for the story you're telling, so for me, to pick a genre I want to do is a little harder. I would say it's more about thinking, 'What genre will work for what kind of story?' And then, when all of that comes, I embrace it and run with it.

All good communal storytelling comes from the sagas and arguments within the writers room.

I don't consciously sit down thinking I'm blurring genre lines, for the most part. I try to stay focused solely on serving the needs of the particular story on which I'm working.

Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it to people you know, trying to make sure that the mathematics of the story work, you feel that those are in place, and the actual writing and final draft doesn't take as long.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

People sort of imagine Chris Morris and me sitting somewhere dark, with dripping taps and chilling background music. In fact, we like to sit on his roof in the sunshine - and there's an endless amount of just sitting there, going, 'So, erm, er, what shall we do?'

He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories.

When you're working in a collaborative storytelling medium, every step of the way, you're opening yourself up.

I'm much more interested in allowing a story to happen, and people find whatever meaning is in there.

I don't ever want to impose something on the story. I want the story to tell me.

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.

I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of develop it in the early stages was something I really wanted to be a part of.

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter. And the rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic, and the best idea wins.

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member.

Trying to force creativity is never good.