Miranda July Quotes

You can't rush inspiration.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

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

I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

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.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

I think the key as a creator is to just trust your own intuition, and follow your passion and trust that if you make something you love, an audience who loves it will find it.

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

The more you reason the less you create.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.

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

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.