Initial Idea Quotes

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

Sankhachil' did not have a script, to begin with. It was just a thought.

You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.

Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.

I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue.

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.

I'm a really slow writer. What I need to start writing on any given day, is a kernel, a line of dialogue, anything I can sense concretely.

There are exceptions of course, but most companies start with a great idea - not a pivot.

I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue. If it does, I can feel a sense of momentum - the poem finds a reason for continuing.

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

Every piece of writing starts from what I call a grit a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.

There's nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that's what's most precious.

Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.

A book begins as a private excitement of the mind.

Even the most complicated stories start with a very simple premise.

I write in a very peculiar way. I think about a book for 25 or 30 years in a kind of inchoate way, and at one point or another, I realize the book is ready to be written. I usually have a character, a first line, and general idea of what the book is going to be about.

You can't think of a franchise from day one. It starts with the audience accepting the idea.

I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme.

I begin with an image of some sort, just as if you saw something out of a window, and then went to the window to see what it was.

Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.

The 'idea' for the poem, which may come as an image thrown against memory, as a sound of words that sets off a traveling of sound and meaning, as a curve of emotion (a form) plotted by certain crises of events or image or sound, or as a title which evokes a sense of inner relations; this is the first 'surfacing' of the poem. Then a period of stillness may follow.

I like to come up first of all with a free idea, thinking about and obviously understanding what is necessary for it to become a car.

If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part.

There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.

Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.