Ideas Quotes

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

The last people with any ideas are young people.

Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go.

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

When you try to communicate too many ideas, sometimes you wind up communicating nothing.

There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

I'm always being accused of being a Hollywood Republican, but I'm not! I have just as many Democratic ideas as Republican ones. If they could build three fewer bombs every month and give the money to foster care, that would be great.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

Exchange ideas frequently.

People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed to think certain ways or that they're not supposed to think, basically, and they don't.

It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.