Chris Cooper Quotes

You have to draw on a fair amount of experience in order to be able to put ideas together.

I'm not a big believer in doing too much research - I think you can get lost in it. You can get constrained by it, which I think is a mistake. But if you've done your homework, the audience feels it.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories.

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

There can be no technique or formula for creativity.

The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.

I believe intellect is needed in order to develop any creative output and that intellect alone is not enough!

I think it's better to have ideas.

It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don’t know.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.

Everything begins with an idea.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

We can invent only with memory.