Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon Quotes

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

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.

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

The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.

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.

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

I think it's better to have ideas.

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.

I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!

Imagination is the air of mind.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

Everything begins with an idea.

We can invent only with memory.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

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.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.