Some are even so absurd as to suppose, that the stock of original ideas is exhausted.
Inevitably any series that goes on too long will reach a point where it starts struggling for ideas, so I've always been really aware of getting out while the going's good.
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.
I wonder if games are maybe a terminus for ideas. Things can be books or movies or operas or plays, but once they're a game, that's where they should end. Things shouldn't start as games and be taken to movies.
After 'Place Beyond the Pines,' honestly, I was sick of myself. Sick of my own ideas. I wanted to do an adaptation, but everything I'd been reading, I just didn't understand it.
Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.
Explore an idea until you've exhausted it, really go to all the different parameters of it.
