Jarrett J. Krosoczka Quotes

I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!'

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

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

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

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

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

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.

Typically my ideas come to me in the most inane ways possible. I had the initial idea for 'Quantum Conundrum' while I was walking down the street to get breakfast. People are like, 'Whoa, what's your inspiration, is it something amazing?' No, I was just really hungry.

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop. At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I'm not one. I'd rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can't ignore.

Sometimes the best ideas will come in the least inspiring places.

You never know where you're going to get inspiration.

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

Lights get low and that's when I have my brightest ideas.

I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I'm superstitious enough not to want to talk about them.

Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

I don't know - it's a bit of a mystery of how things come about when they do. I don't have a scientific explanation for it. Sometimes when you're writing a song, you don't know where you're going.

You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.

You never know where inspiration is going to come from.

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

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

Sometimes, you don't know where your inspiration's going to come from.