Honestly, I get character ideas from the most inane places. Sometimes a song will give me an idea. Sometimes I will just hear a snippet of conversation that ends up having nothing to do with the book that emerges. – Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I’m always looking for movie ideas. – Alexander Payne
Kaizad Gustad is quite crazy, and he has weird ideas, and ‘Boom’ is one such idea. It’s a crazy film by a crazy guy. It’s almost a satire, a black comedy. – Amitabh Bachchan
I like company lunches because I think going out wastes valuable time; plus, a lot of good ideas come up over lunch. – Anne Wojcicki
I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from. – Amy Tan
I have a bunch of concepts and ideas that I want to do but I have also been growing my production company in general and looking to branch out of projects that I am directing and producing. – Adrian Grenier
And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them. – Cameron Crowe
Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters. – Casey Neistat
Music is funny. I shouldn’t even ever talk about music, because you can have all the ideas in your head, and it never goes exactly the way that you think it’s gonna go. – Alicia Keys
I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve. – Brian Eno
The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head’s going to explode with ideas. – Alice Weaver Flaherty
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. – Charles Kettering
I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we’ve been here. I call it our ‘sacred book.’ What I’ve attempted to do is to mine that field, to mine those cultural ideas and attitudes and give them to my characters. – August Wilson
The Koch brothers, through the expenditure of billions of dollars and the creation and support of dozens of extreme right organizations, have taken fringe extremist ideas and made them mainstream within the Republican Party. – Bernie Sanders
My ideas come when I least expect it, so I’ve always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere. – Akon
Almost always, great new ideas don’t emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before. – Clayton M. Christensen
If there are differences of views or divergence of ideas, they can be resolved through discussion and dialogue. – Azim Premji
Today, grass-roots Republicans want to drink a bottle of 2010 small-government wine, but our candidates were bottled in another era, before the tea party’s ideas took root. – Ari Fleischer
I’ve had various experiences where I’ve been called by Hollywood studios to look at a script or comment on various scientific ideas that they’re trying to inject into a story. – Brian Greene
I always say that keeping abreast of science should never be seen as a chore. It should be something you do naturally. I don’t sit there reading ‘New Scientist,’ putting post-it notes next to ideas. – Alastair Reynolds
I’m definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it’s not very productive to come in with nothing. – Billy Corgan
There’s so many strict ideas and rules, whether it’s from religion or it’s just generations and generations. – Ashton Sanders
Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system. – Alex Tabarrok
Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination. – Bob Kane
