I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.
I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.
I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.
You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.
You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what you're going to do with it.
My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.
I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.
Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it's fun to be able to deliver it.
It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.
No-one really feels self-confident deep down becuase it's an artifical idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persucted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.
One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that'll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably.