Joss Whedon Quotes

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

I don't know whether I have ideas all the time. I think I'm curious about things all the time; I think I'm always curious, and I think I'm always interested in whatever passes by, and I know I tend to think about things, and I tend to talk about things, and sometimes that takes root and gives me something to chase.

Some are even so absurd as to suppose, that the stock of original ideas is exhausted.

Oftentimes, when I'm trying to get inspired, I'll find myself just staring at the wall and let the fans inspire me to get creative.

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

I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

In my mind, I'm doing everything, but in reality, I'm doing very, very little. You come up with one idea, one moment, one line that leads to something and you feel like it's easy. And then, you sit back and think there would be no show without that.

You can't hurry creativity, so take time to ponder your ideas. Sit back and take time to think things over. That's usually how the best ideas bloom.

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

Sometimes it takes a germ of an idea, which takes a long time to digest.

I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.

You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff

I'm nostalgic and I do think about a "what if."

To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.

Have you worked here long?" Sebastian asks. Just a few months," I say. "Do you come here a lot?" As if you don't know, Jade. I used to come every day, or, you know, when I could, I'd bring Bo after work. Or just myself." At night sometimes. You'd climb the fence. You'd watch the stars. You'd tilt back your head and look at the sky. You'd think it over, whatever it was.

If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.

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.

You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea.

If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.

Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that live in the mind forever, and the intervals being hazy, half-recalled times when I have a fair idea of what was happenng, in a general way, but cannot be sure of dates or places or even the exact order in which events took place.