John Huston Quotes

You can't rush inspiration.

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

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.

You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes - I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.

I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.

Ideas come from somewhere. People don't come up with these ideas from nowhere. Something triggers your thoughts.

I don't know what the creative process is. I don't know how to trick it into starting or how to egg it on.

There are definitely times - and I think this is pretty common among cartoonists - where you spend an entire day trying to think of an idea, and you're like, 'I give up.' And then you go and take a shower or run an errand, and halfway there, you get an idea.

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

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 often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

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

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

I have ideas saved on my computer that I visit from time to time to see if one may shine and motivate me.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

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

You don't actually have ideas; ideas have you.

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.