Richard Koch Quotes

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

A great idea is simply the combination of many good ideas.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

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

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

Ideas are the root of creation.

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.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

The most original minds borrowed from one another.

The great thing about ideas is that every new idea leads to two more new ones. It’s the opposite of a gold rush, where the more people who show up in 1849 to get that gold in California, the faster the gold runs out. Ideas are not like that; ideas breed.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

Sometimes a creative environment affects what happens within it.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.