Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.
When politicians seek to restrict political speech, it is invariably to protect their own incumbency and avoid having to defend their policies in the marketplace of ideas.
Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard.
Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.
Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.
For about 30 years, Halloween was taken over by pranksters. By the '30s, pranks were causing cities millions of dollars of damage. They considered banning Halloween in many cities, but instead, parents got together and came up with party ideas for kids, and a lot of them involved dressing up and costuming.
You can get fixed ideas, and it can get restrictive. So, I try to put myself in a precarious position.
No ideas are harmed in the making of my books, by the way. All I do with my best ideas is run with them, fast as I can, taking notes and occasionally suggesting a left hand turn rather than the right hand one which might have taken us both over a precipice.
I call it predicament humor. You don't do anything that cuts the star off at the knees or worse. You make him intelligent; you give him great ideas and great things to do.
There is a premium on innovation and commercializing new ideas.
Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table, and I was so intimidated by these titans that I was working for. But it started around the time of 'Tron,' when I was really excited by the creative process and the prep that went into that. I spoke up often at those writing sessions.
When a movie is made, you toy with many ideas, and a prequel to 'Dabangg' is one of them.
Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
When you look at Banksy's work as a catalogue of ideas, it's undeniably brilliant. Going back to my days doing stencil work back in the 80s I knew that it wasn't exactly the most demanding work: it's like printing, but then Warhol was a printer.
The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion.
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.
I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
