You see often it's not ideas, it's inertia, it's bureaucratism, it's all the other things that sometimes come in the way of a good idea..

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also me….

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom..

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid.

Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane..

Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about….

It’s true that the mind is where all ideas are born, but the body is the tool that translates and expresses those ideas to the wider world. It is not….

To understand a new idea, break an old habit..

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..

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….

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..

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!.

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, ….

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..

The idea comes to me from outside of me - and is like a gift. I then take the idea and make it my own - that is where the skill lies..

The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive..