Quotes About Imagination

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.

Who knew that being an artist was a glamour job?

I feel like 'Alice Through the Looking Glass.'

'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess.

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.

I work in fantasy all day, so when I go home, I want to touch reality.

I watch '60 Minutes' and 'Dateline' and '20/20.' I work in fantasy all day, so when I go home I want to touch reality.

For a while, I dallied with the idea of the law - I didn't really know what it was, but I thought it sounded sensible. And as a child, I wanted to be a goalkeeper. Or a butcher.

When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.

As a kid, I really wasn't thinkin' about no golf.

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.

If you just freestyle, everybody is gonna go, 'Freestyle.'

I'm gonna be a character in a Happy Meal.

An actor must read a lot. Books not only make one a good actor but also a better human being.

What a good actor brings to a script is something, sometimes, even directors can't imagine. The director should always have the last say though.

I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.

You don't need to have kids to write a good book for kids. I don't want my kids to see themselves in my books. Their lives should be their lives.

Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.

A good book written for children can be read by adults.

I used to read a good deal of science fiction when I was a boy.

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

Every good film is a bit like a dream, when you come away from it. That's what you should aspire to, rather than some social document. I want to create a little world that will stay with the audience.

A good film is a good film.