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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.

— Simon McBurney

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

— Remy de Gourmont

Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend.

— Brenda Laurel

I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with.

— John Boorman

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

— Remy de Gourmont

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

— Orison Swett Marden

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

— Jean M. Auel

✗Opposing Perspectives

Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go there. An 'idea,' especially one adhered to from start to finish, can be disastrous for a compelling piece of fiction.

— Ron Rash

What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.

— Arthur Golden

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

— Brian Greene