Millard Drexler Quotes

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

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

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.

I don't invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

As an entrepreneur, my problem was that I had too many ideas.

Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

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

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

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

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

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

Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that. I have to have the wheel.

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

You never know what an artist is going to create next.

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

I want to create an environment where I can create technology, get it into the hands of someone to market it, and move on to other technologies so I can keep innovating. I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.

As Hollywood knows, I'm full of ideas.