Unexpected Ideas Quotes

There's a character, Eon, I did back in the 'Captain Marvel' story. Eon came from a greasy smudge on a paper bag inside my kitchen being used for garbage. I went and got a paper and pencil, drew it up, and he became a character in that story. Things come from everywhere.

I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you're writing.

Some of the best ideas come sort of out of nowhere and when you're not expecting it.

Surprise is where creativity comes in.

I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.

Some of the best moments I've ever written have come about because someone, somewhere, blew my preconceptions out of the water and dropped a detail in passing that took the work in an entirely new, entirely unexpected, direction.

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

What's so great about inspiration is sometimes it finds you when you're not looking.

Inspiration strikes at very funny times.

I think anybody alert to the inspiration to write has to be kind of sensitized to the unexpected.

The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the writing is freed, the lanuage is full, resources are plentiful, ideas pour forth, and to be frank, some of these ideas surprise me. It seems as thought the universe is my friend and is helping me write, its hand over mine.

Sometimes I have good ideas. I love that part of our job. It's a constant process of searching, of exploring stuff, and realizing things. You can be in the middle of the film and it's like, "Oh my God! I think we need to do this! Maybe in this scene she should shave her head!"

Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive.

Don't let your imagination take you by surprise.

It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.