Caroline Corr Quotes

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.

I don't have a drawer full of ideas. I kind of look around and take notes and wonder what could actually be a whole movie. And each time, I think I'm going to do it more commercial this time; I'm going to get a big budget and make it. But I always come up with some small idea.

A chair, it's like a sculpture. It starts as a thought and then becomes an idea, something I might think about for years. When the time is right, I express it on paper, usually as a simple line in space. Finally, it takes shape.

Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

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.

If I don't have a model in front of me, I don't have an idea.

Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.

Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.

As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.

If I can find the right idea, I can get out of the way and do a good story.

I enjoyed working with Vikram Kumar, as he is an amazing director who is full of ideas, and he tells me that he has different compartments in his brain in which he places different story ideas and works on them simultaneously.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

Every now and again, something will pop into my head when I'm driving or I'm in the shower, you'll just get an image and it stays with you. It doesn't have to be much, it doesn't have to be a story, it could just be an image. But it won't leave your head and that's when you know you've got something.

I love the creative process - brainstorming and coming up with campaigns.

When you're pitching movies, sometimes you know what the idea is, but you fully don't know the dimensions of it.

I like to create whatever that pops up in my head, bring whatever idea to life.

I have to see the whole scene in my head before I go out and do it. Which I do. I will envision the entire scene before I shoot it.

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.