I graduated in '94 from Yale and New York Undercover was my first gig on TV. I was really all over the place with roles, which is what I wanted to do..

Tell anyone and everyone your idea without fear they're going to steal it..

I've been wanting for some time to find a way of stylizing cinema and trying to get closer to the emotional story I was telling and get rid of all th….

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head..

In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character..

God's idea is for us to become the Word of God, in such a way that men can read the Word by looking at our lives..

Everything I say is true..

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues..

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?.

You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea..

The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use..

One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religi….

CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!.

It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of t….

To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas..

When [Bernie] Sanders was challenged about how he would pass his visionary ideas after he became president, he talked about if lawmakers look out the….

We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, ….

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas..

This is how it is now. This is my life..

Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind of ….

I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore..