If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what….

I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight..

The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it's full..

The simplest things give me ideas..

The name Reflect It Back comes from the idea of not only giving back but also seeing yourself in someone else..

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse..

The idea that you live your life in phases - I've never bought that. I feel like I'm the same person who sat in at the draft board in 1965, I'm the s….

I do think there is a strange idea that the media has that if you tell the public what you think, they can no longer think for themselves..

Every notion is born along with its form. I make reality of ideas as they come into my head.

A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record ….

Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down..

We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on….

There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to ….

The funny thing is that I'm not a planner. I have no idea what I want to do in the interim of that 50 years, but I tell ya: That's where you'll find ….

I kind of like carbon taxes because we already know how to apply them. We already have apparatus in place. When we talk about these other solutions -….

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art..

In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no o….

One main problem with raising awareness of LGBT abuse is the denial. The term "domestic violence" is perceived as something akin to alcoholism, ("I d….

Structure builds minds into great Monuments..

I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a h….

With The Reader, I'd just be shattered at the end of every day really. I wouldn't really want to talk. We kept saying, because we were in Berlin: "If….