Natalie Jeremijenko Quotes

And I think that, given the opportunity, somebody could really learn a lot just being around me and the girls because it's really nonstop, 24/7 brainstorming and creativity and just trying to get organized and really pack a lot into a day - being there nonstop with all engines blazing.

Thinking is my hobby. But sometimes you get to where you're stuck and you can't figure it out, so you just go work on another project. I always have multiple projects.

Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused.

All day long, I'm creative, and the second I get a little tired of any given medium, I just shut that area down and go to the next room. I just go do something else.

Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.

I like to work on a number of things simultaneously. If you're working on a variety of projects and if you get stuck on one of them, you can move to another without grinding your gears indefinitely.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I like to move on to the thing I haven't hit a wall on.

I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

I enjoy juggling four or five different projects in the air and finding connections and disconnections between them.

I've never gotten a good idea while checking Twitter or shopping.

Never listen to music when you're trying go come up with a Big Idea.

I'm always working on something. I wish I had more time for free-thinking and brainstorming new ideas. That's not to say my mind doesn't wander, but I find myself wishing for more of that kind of time.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

I've produced before, and sometimes it's by default. In the indie level, you can't just come to set and be like, 'Oh, I'm an actor.' You have to be willing to help out, make the project happen.

I usually have one project I'm focusing on but often have many other projects in the back of my mind for several years.

I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.

I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors.

Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.

I go to bed late. My mind starts going at night - that's when those creative juices begin flowing.

If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.

I've always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep more than one thing going.

Successful creative adults seem to combine the wide-ranging exploration and openness we see in children with the focus and discipline we see in adults.

I need to be thinking about a few things at once. I think it actually helps because you're cross-fertilizing yourself.

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.