Ideas quotes

“Objects and artifacts last far longer than people, and they represent important ideas in history, identity, beauty.”
Natalie Portman - Jackie Kennedy

“A picture is made a success not on a set but over the drawing board.”
Cecil Blount DeMille

“The concept is interesting and well formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.”
Harry Morris Warner

“- James Conrad: Don't forget to tell me this is a bad idea.
- Mason Weaver: This is a bad idea.”
Tom Hiddleston - James Conrad
Brie Larson - Mason Weaver

“- Ben Bagdikian: Outside of landing the Hindenburg in a lightning storm, that's about the shittiest idea I've ever heard.
- Fritz Beebe: Oh boy!”
Bob Odenkirk - Ben Bagdikian
Tracy Letts - Fritz Beebe

“- Obi-Wan Kenobi: You have allowed this dark lord to twist your mind, until now, until now you've become the very thing you swore to destroy.
- Anakin Skywalker: Don't lecture me, Obi-Wan! I see through the lies of the Jedi. I do not fear the dark side as you do. I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new Empire.”
Hayden Christensen - Anakin Skywalker
Ewan McGregor - Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi

“- Nora Charles: I'm going to lock the door, plug the bell, cut the telephone and crawl into bed for a month!
- Nick Charles: Oh, Nora, you're my favorite woman.”

Myrna Loy - Nora Charles
William Powell - Nick Charles

“Just a moment Marie, I'm having an idea.”
Yahoo Serious - Albert Einstein

“- Saito: If you can steal an idea, why can't you plant one there instead?
- Arthur: Okay, this is me, planting an idea in your mind. I say: don't think about elephants. What are you thinking about?
- Saito: Elephants?
- Arthur: Right, but it's not your idea. The dreamer can always remember the genesis of the idea. True inspiration is impossible...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ken Watanabe - Saito
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Arthur

“You start with some crazy idea, take insane risks, make barely enough to feed your family, not a chance you're gonna succeed. Then all of a sudden you've got all these things and you're terrified of losing them.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Gene McClary

“- George: I'm just beginning to think that space oats isn't the answer.
- Marion: Well, maybe you weren't meant to write agricultural space tragedies.”

Martin Hynes - George
Lisa Jakub - Marion

“You're gonna realise, marriage is an idea whose time has come and gone.”

Daniel Hugh Kelly - Scotty

“Sometimes the funniest ideas just happen in the moment, when you're talking to people, or you notice something.”
Tom Greening

“No one should be afraid of an idea!”
Angus Macfadyen - Orson Welles

“A lot of times, I'll resist the temptation to visually define a movie until, one, I really understand just what the movie's about, and two, until I start talking to my cinematographer.”
Tom McCarthy

“Ah, how shall I do it? Oh, I know. I'll turn him into a flea, a harmless, little flea, and then I'll put that flea in a box, and then I'll put that box inside of another box, and then I'll mail that box to myself, and when it arrives... I'll smash it with a hammer! It's brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, I tell you! Genius, I say!”

Eartha Kitt - Yzma

“The crimes we are investigating aren't crimes, they are ideas.”
Josh Stamberg - Agent Stokes

“No idea is simple when you have to plant it in someone else's mind.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Cobb

“- Taggart: I got it! I know how we can run everyone out of Rock Ridge.
- Hedley Lamarr: How?
- Taggart: We'll kill the first born male child in every household.
- Hedley Lamarr: [after some consideration] Too Jewish.”
Slim Pickens - Taggart
Harvey Korman - Hedley Lamarr

“- Jesse James: So we got a plan?
- Bob Younger: My plan of lying here pissing myself seems to be working mighty fine, thank you!”
Colin Farrell - Jesse James
Will McCormack - Bob Younger

“We're reviving a canceled undercover police program from the '80s and revamping it for modern times. The guys in charge of this stuff lack creativity and are completely out of ideas, so all they do now is recycle shit from the past and expect us all not to notice.”
Nick Offerman - Deputy Chief Hardy

“- Dusty Bottoms: Time for plan B. Plan A was to break into El Guapo's fortress.
- Carmen: And that you have done, now what?
- Dusty Bottoms: Well we really don't have a plan B. We didn't expect for the first plan to work. Sometimes you can overplan these things.”
Chevy Chase - Dusty Bottoms
Patrice Martinez - Carmen

“The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.”
Adrian Lyne

“- Cole Howard: I'm thinking of becoming a male prostitute...
- Josh Kovacs: I think I might have a better idea.”
Casey Affleck - Cole Howard
Ben Stiller - Josh Kovacs

“- Lucy Gennaro McClane: Daddy, you're out of your mind. You shot yourself!
- John McClane: It seemed like a good idea at the time.”
Mary Elizabeth Winstead - Lucy Gennaro McClane
Bruce Willis - John McClane