Quotes About Imagination

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Actors should be writers. While a writer puts the story on paper, an actor puts it on screen.

When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.

Old film-noir movies. There's something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and hearing this kind of music just puts me in a fantasy world. It's a really great escape for me.

For me, I try as much as possible to just think about being in the movie theatre, having the lights dim, and what would I want to see on the screen. That puts me in the frame of mind that made me want to be in the movie business to begin with.

I find the world of podcasts very interesting because it truly puts the audience's visualisation into action. Each and every person listening to it can create their own stories in their minds, with the help of the voice they are listening to.

If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself.

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.

The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything about it. And it's been described as a kind of dreamlike state where you're letting the novel make its own shape, and you're putting into it the pleasure of creation, which is intoxicating.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

I want to feel like I'm doing something creative and trying different things, putting different hats on and playing. I don't know what's the point otherwise; otherwise, it's just a job. You punch a time clock.

I was always the kid who was putting on plays, and so I have no idea how to describe it. I just have always wanted to be an actor.

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

Can't get my head around sci-fi or fantasy. I'm not putting those genres down; it's just that I'm not built for them.

As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step.

The way I build stuff in my mind, it's sort of like a puzzle for me. I always talk about it like, when I'm writing a scene there's a certain feeling I'm trying to create. I'll have my list of scenes and it's more like feelings, these notes I want to hit.

I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags, and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.

I like to be flamboyant, play characters, wear make-up, play dress up. I was doing that since I was a kid.

I read The Flash. I read Green Lantern. I loved Batman.

Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.

I still have flash cards from when I was drawing plays when I was 10 years old.

I've found an extraordinary thing happens where I flash an entire finished song. I could be walking along, say over that bridge, and I see and hear the whole thing, words and music.