"The ideas can come from anywhere; the energy just comes from loving what I do."
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"Your idea of a safe stop is to shank me?!"
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"he was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could be more than a private hobby. But for his interest and unceasing eagerness for more I should never have brought The L. of the R. to a conclusion."
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"As far as producing, once we started shooting, I soon realized where the critical decisions about the movies were really being made, and it wasn't on the set. They were being made in the production meetings. That's where producing a movie happens. And that's where I wanted to be. I didn't just want to be a piece, a pawn being played. I wanted to take part in the creative process, and that's how I sort of got introduced to the idea."
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"I love Godzilla, but my favorite was on this TV Show, Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot. I used to love the idea of having a giant robot under my control. That was like a dream come true for a kid."
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"[Make a sitcom] was really the idea of Executive Producer Joe Roth who owned the property over at Revolution Studios and said he was thinking about taking it to TV. And after he said that he already had [writer/director] Ali Leroi on board, and that he was going after Terry Crews, to me it was a no-brainer. I said, "Let's put this together!""
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"I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas."
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"I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas."
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"New information makes new and fresh ideas possible."
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"The idea of who my father is to me is very different than who he is to you, or to the rest of the world."
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"Take the ideas that speak to you. Use your imagination. Create something wonderful."
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"You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin."
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"We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered."
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"Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner."
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"The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony."
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"Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust."
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"Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they're convinced their idea is not going to work."
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"Most ideas are stillborn and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving."
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"Ideas... they have the power"
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"IDEAS CAN BE TRANSMUTED INTO CASH THROUGH THE POWER OF DEFINITE PURPOSE, PLUS DEFINITE PLANS."
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