Quotes About Imagination

We filmmakers are control freaks. For us, it's about bending the elements of a story into existence.

There's an old Fred Astaire movie where the stage becomes bigger and deeper and more complex. Moments like that really did impact on me and influence me.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

I am an artiste and truly a free spirit.

Bad writing as a conscious goal is liberating for students: They are freed to be creative in a new and different way.

If I can feel freedom then I can create.

One day I can be a spaceman, the next day I can be president, the day after that I can travel 200 years into the past. It's this really freeing profession.

Not everyone is fortunate enough to earn their living playing. But what draws people to art and artists is a desire to enjoy the propinquity of play. For it is the very freedom of the imagination. And what else were we born to do, but imagine freely?

I took to 'SpongeBob' and started watching it frequently. Even when I'm older, I think I'll still watch the show.

Often it's the people who know a place least well who write about it best because they see it fresh.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

I hope to bring fresh ideas to the big screen.

My parents would watch movies like 'Big' and 'Freaky Friday,' and I wanted to see that kind of story told from an African-American angle. So I had the idea for 'Little,' and then I told my parents, and we all fleshed it out together.

I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with cowboys, I started rodeoing. When I was calf-roping, there was something about the dirt that made me feel clean.

I grew up torturing friends and family by making super-8 and VHS epics.

In writing 'Another Brooklyn,' I had to imagine what happens when friendships dissolve.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

Most of the things I do are inspired by things that frightened me when I was young.

It would be quite interesting to use Kermit the Frog to act like a real frog. But it wouldn't produce captivating theatre.

I think everyone likes to play dress up from time to time.

I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.

With 'Crazy Story,' I thought it from the back to the front. I thought about the ending first, then what's going to happen.

As a composer, the voice comes in front of me when I make a song.

Food has always been at the frontier of creativity.