Isaac Asimov Quotes

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.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

"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.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

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

You can't rush inspiration.

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

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

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.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

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

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

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

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

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.

Each time I sit down and write a play I try to dismiss from my mind as much as I possibly can the implications of what I've done before, what I'm going to do, what other people think about my work, the failure or success of the previous play. I'm stuck with a new reality that I've got to create.