Julian Barratt Quotes

Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.

Well, what I try to do is throw as much mud on the wall as I possibly can and just see what sticks, what shines as quirky or more interesting that the others, and I try to cling onto that one, somehow join a link from there to there.

I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.

Most intuitive ideas have to be clarified, so there is a trial and error process.

My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'

Generally, our first idea of what our business is going to be is not the right one. It takes a few iterations; to get there, you have to be able to let go.

Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another.

I think the philosophy will continue to be what it always was; which was, let's keep throwing a bunch of things at the wall, and see what sticks.

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.

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

The video maker doesn't easily face a blank page. Because the videomaker can run it either any way, this way or the other way and erase it if they don't like it and so on.

I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.

I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'

Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.

I think if I try to develop a formula, it ends up not working.

We very much use a prototyping model, play with ideas, and then get stuff started that way, which is how the greatest projects get started.

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile.

I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.

You have a lot of ideas …. I want them so I can test them.

For me, every one of our projects is a research-and-development project.

The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.

Every scene is on the table to collaborate on, to pick apart, to try a million different ways. Usually, what ends up occurring in the end is something that no single person knew would happen or had planned for.