Concept Realization Quotes

At the start of the process the idea is just a thought - very fragile and exclusive. When the first physical manifestation is created everything changes. It is no longer exclusive, now it involves a lot of people.

It's important to have a sound idea, but the really important thing is the implementation.

There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making.

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

You write a character, but in essence, it's just a concept of what it could be, and then actors come in and they have their own sort of interpretations and thoughts. If you respond to those and then go forward with them, then it's kind of like magic to see the idea you had become alive and in the flesh.

Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea; the point being that the material has vitality - it resists and makes demands.

Generally speaking, anything that the human mind can conceive can ultimately be produced.

To make an idea become a reality is a process that fascinates me; otherwise it stays just an idea.

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.

Seeing something go from concept to execution is a thrill to me.

An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.