Quotes About Imagination

I think being a dragon would be pretty awesome... you get to fly.

I wanted to fly when I was little.

So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you.

I just want that sensation you have in dreams when you fly to be real.

I'd really love to watch David Lynch work, to be a fly on the wall.

My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.

My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas.

We all thought we'd have flying cars by now, but we don't.

Everybody kind of fantasizes about it, flying.

When writing, I'm not thinking about war, even if I'm writing about it. I'm thinking about sentences, rhythm and story. So the focus, when I'm working, even if it's on a story that takes place at war, is not on bombs or bullets. It's on the story.

Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused.

It's almost like schizophrenia the way I get ideas about things that are not really happening and just end up focusing on them.

It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.

I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.

We have to find ways to create content that folks want to see.

TV people are great folks, but if I said, 'Come and film a beetroot-jar-opening competition,' they would.

My dreams are all follies.

There are so many dreams that I'd like to follow.

It feels like there are more good youts out there following their dreams. It's not just music; they're doing loads of stuff - they are getting creative and doing mad out of the box stuff.

Following a pre-cellphone world of children on an adventure is incredibly appealing for me. These are the kinds of movies I fell in love with and made me want to be a filmmaker in the first place.

I have a great fondness for the liars in my stories.

If you're an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you're much younger than you are because you're playing parts and behaving like a child all the time.

At 11 years old, in 1968, my job was to deliver food on foot, so I spent my day walking around the city. I had an active imagination, jacked up by movies. I passed the time making up stories and serializing them.

Sometimes in my mind I have a picture of something happening, and because the foot is not right it is harder to happen. I see the ball and I can see myself intercepting it or rebounding or doing this stuff, and it's just not there. There's not the movement or explosiveness.