There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.
The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.
Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a ridiculously helpless state.
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.
If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.
Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.
I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.