Ricky Gervais Quotes

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

I'm always having ideas. I'd like to continue being able to realise the ideas I have.

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.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.

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.

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

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

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

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Everything begins with an idea.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.