Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

You know how the best story angles often spring from that thought you have on reading an article or watching a show - that thought you have before the responsible journalist in you comes up with something boring. I usually recommend people get in touch with their deep 'reptilian brain.'

Typically my ideas come to me in the most inane ways possible. I had the initial idea for 'Quantum Conundrum' while I was walking down the street to get breakfast. People are like, 'Whoa, what's your inspiration, is it something amazing?' No, I was just really hungry.

Not all ideas are like a twinkling star in the sky, and you get inspired to make a record the next day.

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

Lights get low and that's when I have my brightest ideas.

The creative act always requires a stepping back. It's called the incubation period. The incubation period - one of the four phases of creativity - is when you're not consciously thinking of a problem, and you're letting it marinate. So this is why you hear time and again, people saying they had that "Eureka" moment in the bath, like Archimedes, or in the shower, or while going for a walk or in a coffeehouse.

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

Sometimes I have good ideas. I love that part of our job. It's a constant process of searching, of exploring stuff, and realizing things. You can be in the middle of the film and it's like, "Oh my God! I think we need to do this! Maybe in this scene she should shave her head!"

I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Ideas come from somewhere. People don't come up with these ideas from nowhere. Something triggers your thoughts.

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

You don't actually have ideas; ideas have you.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

You can't rush inspiration.