Quotes About Imagination

I am scared of ghosts, I know they don't exist, but still I am.

I want to believe in ghosts. I love ghost stories.

Many people told me such convincing ghost stories that I felt that there really were ghosts, though I hadn't seen any. And though I still haven't seen a ghost, I feel that they are all around us; we are just not aware of them being there.

I do believe in ghosts, but I haven't seen one. I can imagine that you cross over to the other side, some different dimension or whatever, but how do your clothes get there? Ghosts are always wearing clothes.

I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.

Whenever I run out of people to write about, I cook up a few ghosts, or they appear before me.

For me, the creative process is this giant patchwork of information.

I have to imagine playing Cruella de Vil in a giant Disney movie is probably a little scary.

Debbie Gibson and dog food. I've always dreamed of this.

I read a lot of science fiction and biography - these are my two favorite genres. My favorite science fiction writers are Hertling, Suarez, Gibson and Stephenson, but I enjoy many others. I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

I have a Prius, but I'd love to have a white convertible like Richard Gere's in 'American Gigolo.'

I have about 100 gigs of music, and I'm always going through thinking about what song I can match to a scene and all that.

Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.

It's every little girl's dream to have an exact look-alike doll. It's amazing.

I have 20,000 girlfriends, all around the world.

You have to give people something to dream on.

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.

Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.

I love rumors. It gives me something to think about and enjoy.

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

I am glad that I belong to this era of cinema where we are witnessing blurring lines between real and reel.

I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.

It seemed to me that you make magic real by making it a little prosaic, a little difficult and disappointing - never quite as glamorous as the other characters imagine.