You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.
People often get very entangled in their work and life, so de-stressing is very important to keep generating fresh ideas and provide satisfaction with one's activities.
The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.
My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.
I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.
It's not a matter of learning lines. It's a matter of getting into the ideas and the will of the person. It's a matter of, 'What does he want to do? What does he want to achieve?'
I saw a Shakespeare play when I was - I guess I was in junior high. And I just fell in love with the theater because, for me, it was a combination of big ideas and feeling.
I'm more obsessed with the idea of vacation than any one particular vacation spot. I love to explore new places and cultures.
I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
I love the idea that someone I like would have a piece of mine in their house and have a relationship with it.
The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.
It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.
The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.
I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable.
A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.
I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.
The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous.
When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.
I get giddy with the idea of stringing words together that make people laugh.
I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.
That's what helps me keep playing: the idea of giving something to others. Because personally, I've had my fill.
