Quotes About Inspiration

Making 'Pacific Rim' was a lot like what you imagined making movies would be like when you were 12.

If I could pick any story idea or script I had that I wanted everything to go exactly right for, it would probably be 'Pacific Rim.'

I had assumed I'd pack my bags and head elsewhere after 'Constellation,' but Chechnya is creeping its way into the margins of my second book.

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.

What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.

And I think that, given the opportunity, somebody could really learn a lot just being around me and the girls because it's really nonstop, 24/7 brainstorming and creativity and just trying to get organized and really pack a lot into a day - being there nonstop with all engines blazing.

I'm not trying to be this guy just chugging along. I want to lead the pack.

It's all cyclical. Sometimes things just come in packs. At one point you had this collection of great choreographers where you would see eight bars and you would know definitely who did it.

I want to give the audience the whole package, and for me, the whole package is to give them something fresh as well. It's not as much fun resting on your laurels.

I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.

My roots are in everything from doo-wop and blues to the Four Freshman and the Beach Boys and jazz and electronica. But it was put together in a deceptively simple package.

Creativity and self-destruction sometimes come in the same package.

It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing.

When you see the orbiter headed out the launch pad and then crawling up the hill and being hard down on the pad, it does something to you.

I'm ecstatic to be known as pad man, as it makes a difference to women's lives.

I love being a writer. I have a great life. I get up in the morning and pad around in my dressing gown and listen to Radio 4.

I keep a note pad because, sometimes, my thoughts get jammed up, and this is the only way that I can just, I can put brakes on it and brace myself, and just really, I feel like it's better when I see it on paper.

Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily.

I remember my first shin pads had the Brazilian Ronaldo on them, and I loved them.

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.

My sketchbook is not sacrosanct, and my children would draw on one page while I drew on the other. It was something we shared.