Javed Ali Quotes

Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

A new medium always has a period when it is struggling inside the confining box of an earlier medium. Creators have to unlearn what they knew before they can see the fresh, uncharted vistas stretching before them.

These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.

Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before.

Always be different; don't follow the rules. Don't do what anyone tells you. Don't use the same sounds as people; don't use the same drums as people.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

We can't get any new thinking because we can't get any new thinkers.

It's important to have people who are absolutely willing to say you're wrong or who have a totally different perspective than you do on everything. Fresh ideas are hard to come by, and good ones are even harder.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

There are stories to be told that are still untold and characters to be portrayed that haven't been portrayed correctly. So there's work to be done.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

The artist must ask you to think of the world in a different way, and sometimes it's a more abstract way; sometimes it's a completely different kind of colouring.

Rarely, someone comes around that is influenced by so many things but is looking for a new way to do something.

Youngsters are coming up with so many new ideas and doing small budget films, which is good. Even my daughter thinks of some subjects that are strange and different. But when I discussed it with some writers, they said it's fantastic. So I think young people are able to think something different. It's great!

If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.

I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas.

Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways

There are people who are originals and the stuff they make really is new. It isn't based on anything else. But I've decided I'm not that-I was never that. My abilities are to synthesize a wide range of references and ideas into something that feels relatively unified and coherent.

I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.