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I think I have a sense right in the beginning of how big an idea it is and how much room it needs, and, almost more importantly, how long it would sustain anybody's interest.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

All ideas grow out of other ideas.

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

You never know when your ideas are going to come back to you.

I try to push a single idea to its absolute limit. So for all of those ideas that existed in the story, you attempt to find a physical realisation in the space.