Akiva Goldsman on the Creative Process | Breakthrough

I think the creative process is actually
very similar whether it be math science
music or art I’m more familiar with the
dredging of the ether for a sentence or
two and I like it but it is an act of
sheer faith it is an act of propulsion
into some version of the void which is
what all the folks who have been working
to change the way we utilize our
resources are doing as well they face a
problem that doesn’t have a simple
presenting solution and then what one
does is one sort of pearls oneself at it
I am the least athletic person known to
man but I was once forced to go rock
climbing and I started rock climbing and
I got a bit of the ways up and I stopped
because there was nothing to do there
were no more hand holds there were no
more footholds I say this as an
empirical truth and the person who is
teaching me to rock climb said just
stand there and I said well what good
will that do and he said just stand
there and I did and suddenly there were
handholds and footholds and I don’t
understand why or how but I know that’s
an impurity fundamentally if you faced
the problem a solution will present
itself and i think that is creativity
the impossible transmutation of nowhere
to grab on to to somewhere to grab up
and I don’t think that’s different
whether it’s a musical note or a
sentence or a strategy to turn something
solid into something magic or love for
them