Quotes About Imagination

If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?

I've always been a bit of a drama queen. I was into make-believe and dressing up.

When I was growing up in Ossining, N.Y., playing pool with the guys, the thought that any one of us might become an actor was as far-fetched as being knighted by the queen of England.

I guess I've sort of always wanted to be an actress, except when I was five, which, I did want to be the Queen of England.

It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.

I think Johnny Depp could play just about any role - I'd love to see what he would do with the Red Queen!

I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.

There is no first-hand account of what the Queen was saying or thinking, so my job as an actor is to interpret her circumstances.

I wrote my first play when I was eight. It was about a queen, and I - of course! - was the queen.

Drag queens, our whole art form is about taking inspiration from artists we adore.

As drag queens, you constantly have to be coming up with, 'What's the thing no one's ever seen before?'

With Quentin Tarantino, he makes movies imagining himself as the audience. To be specific and true to what he wants resonates to people who like his movies.

Designing characters for 'Dragon Quest' is fun but difficult work.

I thought about 'Johnny Quest' and how I loved that cartoon and what a cool name he has. I tried to come up with other names and thought 'Johnny Phantom' would be cool, a superpowered kid who was a ghostbuster.

You don't question magic.

Play is the answer to the question, 'How does anything new come about?'

In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.

I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.

I like to go to the movies and watch characters who make me question how I see the world.

And the question about if I ever dreamed of making the putt on the last hole of a U.S. Open when I was a kid, no, I didn't. But I hit a lot of game-winning shots on the basketball court when I was a kid.

I grew up listening to 'Planet of the Apes' and other scores, and it was fun for me because you weren't just listening to those scores, but you were also questioning what you were listening to. What are those sounds?

I look at art as a container. You can't get inside it, so you have to ask all of these questions.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

A lot of our creative flow comes from a place of curiosity and exploration. It often feels like we're excavating and asking questions and not just giving answers but really just exploring.