Jon M. Chu Quotes

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea for a story in my head, or few lines.

When I find research really rewarding is when one piece of information gives you an idea for a story. That's when it's great.

Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just don't know about.

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that hide just beyond the doorway that separates the conscious from the unconscious.

Everything's a film idea if this is what you do.I've always been secretly confident that I'd never run out of ideas,because I've never had any. I just live my life, see things theway I do, and I'm just looking for a notion to hang it all on.

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.

Most writers seem to prefer the morning, or they feel at their best in the morning. Ideas are popping into your head while you're in the shower. And that's true for me, as well.

The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.

An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.

Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

Sometimes a story idea will come to me, and suddenly I've figured out the whole thing, and I feel like I'm collaborating with something other than myself.

To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.

It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it.

When I read a story or see something play out in front of me I say, how come nobody's made a movie or a television show out of this? This is something that belongs in the conversation. Certainly that's what interests me about a project.

It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about

Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.

Generally I know that we've hit on a good idea if there's a moment where I'm going "HA HA HA!" because that's usually my starting point, me laughing.

Ideas come and go, stories stay.

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

I love working on scripts. I love coming up with ideas about what people would dress like or talk like. I love all that.

My poems often start with an idea, some kind of inspiration. I don't expect anything. Every now and then something like "The One Truth" comes out.