New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate.
I hope to bring fresh ideas to the big screen.
Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.
A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.
There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.
Originality is only variation.
Someone, somewhere has a better idea.
All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I did them they were not conventional. The executives could only think in terms of what they'd already seen. It's hard for them to think in terms of what has never been done before.
The late Richard Feynman, a superb physicist, said once as we talked about the laser that the way to tell a great idea is that, when people hear it, they say, 'Gee, I could have thought of that.'
Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.
Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.
Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.
I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.
There are so many wonderful classic roles, but I also would be really interested in developing something brand new. I think my heart would probably be in developing something brand new; I think that sounds really exciting.
Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.
If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.
I have lots of strange ideas in the back of my mind.
Sometimes it's the detours which turn out to be the fruitful ideas.
Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.
This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.
There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value
Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
I'm always looking for something very different from anything I've done. I'm attracted to a great script, and not necessarily a great character.
Maybe I would get the chance to be financed for a small romantic comedy, but a war movie by a 28-year-old woman about Japanese soldiers? No one was going to go for that. It's easy to just steal an idea because it's very safe.
