You want to invent new ideas, not rules.

I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone..

A good idea for lyrics and a melody to expand on..

I'm attracted to good writing. When I read the page and I know what we're after and where we're headed, and I'm fortunate enough to respect that idea….

I find it very fascinating that one person or a group of people can get together as a choir and come up with a song that ends up inspiring people to ….

Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness..

Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake, and Bau….

To me, there was an interesting movie to be made about two people who had been on that whirlwind romance and what happens after the fairy tale weddin….

I guess working on 'Mad Men' turned me onto AMC and really got me watching the network, and so with that I got a good idea of the type of show they l….

Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy t….

We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside con….

A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others..

The examples of female success stories are important on the global scale, as they help to disseminate the idea of gender equality and to spread the r….

You want to invite new ideas, not new rules..

My counsel to entrepreneurs is to 'own' a region, 'own' a market, 'own' a segment. Create something you can defend. Don't get hung up on the idea tha….

Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity..

The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are en….

God, I love John Cassavetes..

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense..

I don't think my playing style has really changed over the years; it's just gotten better. I can hear the improvement in comparing older records and ….

A lot of things get made this way: someone imagines what they want to make, then very carefully plans every step of the process, then sets about maki….