If you can’t fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant. – Trevor Nunn
I try to push a single idea to its absolute limit. So for all of those ideas that existed in the story, you attempt to find a physical realisation in the space. – Simon McBurney
I’ve always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others. – Warren Ellis
Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society’s most important tasks. – Timothy Noah
To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two. – Sheri S. Tepper
When I’m shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot – new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can’t do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical. – Satyajit Ray
I had a lot of different thoughts and ideas and always to transform, but I’m trying certain things that I feel my heart is really going for and that was one of the things that I initiated a few months ago. – Steffi Graf
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. – Thomas Jefferson
Feature film can have a major role in explaining ideas and describing peoples’ lives and their struggles. – Stephen Bannon
That’s why I hate the outlines and treatments, because all you get are cliches. If you put things down on paper as your plan, it’s very hard to get those ideas out of your head and do something better. – Whit Stillman
Healthy ideas of both left and right, along with totally new ideas, must form a growing united front. – Tom Metzger
On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they’ve seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb. – Siobhan Davies
It’s terribly important that you can criticise people’s ideas without criticising them, and if they burst into tears, it means that you tend to hold back from getting at the absolute truth. – Tim Hunt
It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa. – Wangari Maathai
My father believed, like Pericles, that a man’s genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas. – Thomas Steinbeck
Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise. – William Whewell
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. – Walt Disney
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. – Victor Hugo
The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what’s going on with the self, that’s the general thing people are talking about. – Stanley Crouch
I think I get a lot of ideas from when I was a kid, listening to Casey Kasem’s ‘American Top 40.’ – Sufjan Stevens
Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that’s the hard work. – Sarah Zettel
Most managers are just trying to survive. That’s why a lot of smarter guys have been let go from Fortune 500 companies: because they came up with new ideas that no one would allow them to try. – Walter O’Brien
All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film. – Steve Buscemi
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas. – Stanley Kubrick
The big ideas always come in flashes. I don’t really craft stories that much. I genuinely don’t know where these people come from, and I’ve often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness. – Taiye Selasi
