Quotes About Imagination

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

As a kid, I had a background in theater.

Good theater is not realistic, and should not be. Its purpose, rather, is to highlight, never to spell out a situation.

'Peter and the Starcatcher' is the most amazing piece of theater I think I've ever seen. It made we want to be a kid again and made me want to pretend, which I do on a nightly basis.

All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.

I work in theater, so I am always working in front of empty chairs. They represent a future presence. They are never just chairs.

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

At some point, when I was 14 or 15, the idea crossed my mind to become an actor... I hadn't been to the theater much... When I grew up, we had one TV channel, which was sufficient.

The first thing I did as a child was draw. I wanted to make animated movies. I think Disney's 'Cinderella' was the first movie I ever saw. 'Peter Pan' was the first movie I ever saw in the movie theater. I grew up with 'Dumbo' and 'Pinocchio' and 'Sword in the Stone.' Those were the movies I wanted to make.

When I am sitting in a movie theater with my girlfriends or boyfriend, I think how cool would it be to watch a movie with me in it.

A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater.

Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.

I come from 'black-box' theater, where basically, you make your own adventure out of nothing.

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world.

I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.

Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.

There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater.

Theater has always been most important to my psyche.

I remember when I saw 'The Matrix' when I was 13, I saw it in the theaters, and I was so blown away by it. It was one of the most memorable experiences I definitely ever had in the theater.

I'd like more kids to go and see theatre because it really is amazing.

I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to theatre, and if that child has a great experience at a pantomime they will continue to come year after year.