Guy Ritchie Quotes

Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.

My job is to put as many ideas out there as possible every day. Some of them will get traction, some won't - some of them shouldn't.

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

We very much use a prototyping model, play with ideas, and then get stuff started that way, which is how the greatest projects get started.

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

Being able to chuck ideas around and bounce ideas off each other with anyone I'm working with is just something I love to do, that's how most of these ideas are formed.

To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.

Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out.

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

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

The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

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.