Robert Sheehan Quotes

Certainly when, you know, you put a lot of creative people together, there's ego and tension and all that stuff comes into play. But on the flip side, there's a lot of camaraderie and closeness.

If you do come up with a new idea, in 4 seconds it will belong to somebody else.

To me, the more dialogue amongst creative types, the better. It keeps people on their toes, and competition is healthy.

Small developers can compete on creativity not on scale or staff size.... Nintendo is willing to help bring these ideas to life.

If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.

The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff.

At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.

I love working with younger actors because they always come into the game full of energy and ideas that challenge me and keep me learning and stimulated.

The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.

And in Improvisation there is one hard and fast rule, and that rule is known as "Yes And." The term YES AND: to say yes, and not just yes, but to add information. In the adding of information you don't negate the other persons idea - but you build on it.

In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas come, namely that part of ourselves that dreams. The unconscious is our best collaborator.

Do not covet your ideas.

The joy of being in the studio is having people being utterly free to throw out their ideas.

Someone very smart once said to me, "Steal, don't borrow." So if there's anything good in anything anyone else does, it's fair game. I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.

You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them.

The writers are so smart, I can only imagine. I would love to be in that room. I love the creative process.

Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you're an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking for inspiration.

It's been really exciting to work on a collaborative, creative team where we got to bounce ideas back and forth and figure out the best one.

Having colleagues nearby, whether at the beach or in a crypt, means the ideas are always flowing

If I collaborate with people, ideas...they take interesting turns and twists, and I'm excited for that and that process and excited to see what we come up with.

I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people.

I can come up sometimes with ideas for scenes that I'm not in, to make it better or add something. It's not about me, or my ego, that I wanna show this or that.

To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

You don't have to stay in your lane when it comes to friendship or ideas.