Everything that we do starts with an idea.
We don't know what to do unless we have an idea.
So ideas are like fish,
and you don't make the fish, you catch the fish.
You, desiring an idea is like
putting a bait on a hook and lowering it into the water.
You can catch ideas from daydreaming,
or you can catch ideas from places.
If you think that maybe a place could conjure ideas,
then you have to go out of the house and go traveling.
You could be going down the street,
see a reflection in a little pool in the gutter,
and bang, an idea will come.
Who knows how it happens?
I always say it's like
there's a man in another room
with the whole film together
but they're in puzzle parts.
And he's flipping one piece at a time into me.
And at first it's very abstract, I don't have a clue,
more pieces come, more ideas are caught,
it starts forming a thing.
And then one day there it is.
So in a way there's no original ideas,
it's just the ideas that you caught.
The thing is to be true to the idea.
A lot of artists think that suffering
is necessary
but in reality, any kind of suffering
cramps the flow of creativity.
Let's say that Van Gogh, everytime he went out to paint
he got diarrhea.
It wouldn't be so good for him to go out.
He'd have to be really crazy.
Happiness in the doing
is so important, and I always say
It's our life going by.
And then this creativity flowing,
ideas are easier to catch
and ideas that could take you out of drudgery work
and lead you to some place, you know,
some fantastic things.
Trillions and zillions of ideas,
and they're all there bubbling
and they're ready to be caught.
