A. A. Milne Quotes

Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.

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.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.

I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.

Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it makes a kind of a bait. Ideas will come swimming up. And you don't know them until they enter the conscious mind. And then bingo! There it is! You know it instantly. And then more come in. If you go fishing for ideas, a lot of ideas will just pop in. And one of them will make you fall in love.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

I have a lot of ideas that I feel are half-formed, or half-way okay.

I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes.

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 have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes - I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

When you have one idea per year, it's already a miracle!

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.