Quotes About Imagination

You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre.

I remember going through school and doing art, which was the only thing that I actually found fulfilling, and I couldn't really figure out why. Then I got into college and started messing around with photography, and I realised that it was about getting the images that were in my head out in a way that didn't have to be spelt correctly.

Before there was any talk of a movie, people would sometimes ask me what actors I would imagine playing these characters. And the only thing I could ever say is: I have such a clear idea of these characters that they'd have to play themselves.

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.

The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer.

I remember when I was 12, talking with my friends about what we wanted to do with our lives, astronauts, forensic detectives, all these different jobs. And the only thing I could think was an actor.

When I was a boy, the only thing which captivated me as much as music was the night sky.

I've done every job in the world, and movies, the only thing close to a movie that I've ever done is it's kind of like being in a band.

The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.

The problem with being a writer is that some readers tend to think that anything that comes out of a character's mouth is you talking.

The problem with celebrity hot guys is they either get old or go off the grid. That's why a book is so much better... a hot guy can live in your imagination and stay hot forever!

The problem with prequels is you're limiting yourself as to where it can go.

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

That era of designers being away with the fairies is gone... You've got to live in the real world.

The difference between a Marvel superhero and a DC superhero is that we place Marvel superheroes in the real world that we recognize and that we know.

I want to create something that doesn't exist exactly in the real world, but exists in a kind of parallel to the real world.

The telling of stories creates the real world.

You can only really invent something if you connect yourself to the real world - whatever that means.

I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

It's true, I don't like the real world.