Joss Whedon Quotes

Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.

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

When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.

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!

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

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

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 is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.

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

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.

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.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

There is no secret orchard where ideas grow. Oh my, do I wish there were.

The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.

I don't know what idea is going to hit me when.

Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.

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.

It's sort of a mystery where ideas come from.

Each time I invent something and have it manufactured, it's so incredibly exciting that I can't imagine ever wanting to stop. Envisioning new products is easy for me. I just don't have enough time in the day to design them all.

I have an active imagination.

I think one of the most important things for creativity is boredom.

Invent. I love inventing, that's my first passion.