In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself..

I hate the idea that someone think the destruction of Chicago as strategic affair, the destruction of Hamburg as a tactical one..

The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as the idea of a purely American….

Do not covet your ideas..

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction..

Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing everyone a disservice by perpetuating the idea that beautiful is better than plain, because having done everything ju….

I never sat down and wrote, but what I do is kind of act as a dramaturge for the piece. I am sitting with the writers. I'm discussing ideas with the ….

it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contempora….

Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What we ordi….

In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we donot know is a closed….

[The press] said to me yesterday 'How does it feel to be called anorexic?' and I had no idea that I was. I'm not saying there aren't people in the fi….

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day..

Concepts antedate facts..

Because when you work with a different team, the expectations are different and then you deliver in a very different way. You look back at it and you….

There were no hundreds and hundreds of cases of domestic violence. I would have no knowledge of that or have any idea how I would authenticate that. ….

I watch TV more than I used to, and the commercials don't impress me. The standard of execution is very high, but the standard of ideas is appalling..

If everyone thinks you have a good idea, you´re too late.

Let's talk about the artist's desire to go beyond the pictorial or the representational and the desire to create the abstract - the idea that paintin….

My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling show tunes..

If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by..

The idea of America's religious groups fighting over the limited public money to be made available takes us down the road towards the kind of sectari….