New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
In a romantic comedy, it's usually a good idea to have people who can't stand the fact that they are attracted to each other.
Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to think being a Facebook employee is really correlated with good ideas.
And so they pitched the show to me. It sounded like a good idea. We pitched the show back, and got it sold and got it on the air. And that's kicking the tail.
If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea - or as is so often the case, no idea at all - I don't give a damn how good the execution is, it's going to fail.
Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.
I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.
I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can't just walk around free like we did; life has changed.
I love the idea of expanding the universe of games to some extent. At one point, they were kind of limited to boys, fanboys and whatever. I like the idea of liberation for games.
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
When we're in the shower, when we're thinking about our idea - boy, does it sound brilliant. But the reality is that most of our ideas are actually terrible.
Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
Sí, a veces la idea más absurda, la idea más fantástica en apariencia, se apodera de nosotros con tal fuerza que acabamos por creerla realizable.
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.
The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.
There's only one thing in life more dangerous than a bad idea, and that's a good one.
There's no way I would have thought I would have had the career that I did and the longevity. Absolutely no idea.
I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.
One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.
The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
