Alan Moore Quotes

"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What fascinates me is not that people ask the question, but what kind of answer are they really looking for? Because if I tell them the truth, which is "I make them up," they seem very disappointed. They want to know about the trek I do once a year to the mountain.

My ideas and creativity are the sources of inspiration for me.

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.

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

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

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

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

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

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.

You can't rush inspiration.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.

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.

Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.

In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas come, namely that part of ourselves that dreams. The unconscious is our best collaborator.