Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it.
We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.
The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.
People can have so many ill-conceived ideas about me based on the parts that I play. I've had guys, when I've been single, come out of the woodwork to date me and I've found out very quickly that they were expecting some kind of whirlwind, some dramatic crazy person - and that's just not me.
What I think of as 'freakonomics' is mostly storytelling around an idea - not a theme but an idea. I like ideas much more than themes. Themes are boring. Themes are, 'Wool is back,' but ideas are, 'Why is wool back?'
World leaders need to approach the problems in the Middle East and northern Africa with imaginative ideas such as those that created the E.U.
I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.
Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
In the morning, Capra would arrive with twenty-or-so pages in which he'd written down all of his ideas. Most were terrible, then all of a sudden there would be one which was astounding.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
The most difficult thing about music videos is that a lot of young filmmakers come into the medium, and they have so many different ideas, but they need to understand what the musician wants.
'Zone One' comes out of me trying to work through some of my ideas about why, for me personally, zombies are scary.
