Thomas Bangalter Quotes

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

My inspiration is endless; I can't define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I'm taking it from everywhere. People get nervous when they walk with me, as I'll see something and suddenly have to text it to myself.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.

The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious.

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.

You can't rush inspiration.

Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.

There's not a formula that I'm following; it's just how I feel at the time. For instance, I did a very experimental film called 'Hardcore Henry,' and that was simply because I thought the filmmaker was very interesting and a risk taker. A film like that had never been made before, so I chose to do that at the time.

There can be no technique or formula for creativity.

Creative processes are always very opaque. Afterwards, you tend to pretend that everything was planned and it was a strategy, but it was not like that at all.

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

I don't really dissect too much when ideas come - they just kind of pop into my head; I just take them and run.

Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.

Creativity is about a reaction.

I think, like all big things, you don't know they're going to be a big thing when you start. You just kind of, like, play because it's fun, and it's interesting, and then it turns out to be way more important than you expected.

The best stuff comes out when you're not making it for anything and you don't really know what you're making.