Quotes About Imagination

I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.

I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didn't know what was beyond. But we thought about it - a lot. And that 'beyond' became internalized in our psyche.

Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me.

To figure out what people think, look at the stories that they tell. We might never get away from the image of Sheldon from 'The Big Bang Theory' breaking down in the middle of the store, not knowing which console to buy, but we can see in TV and movies how regular characters are more and more starting to play games.

I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.

It's a nice challenge to escape your reality. I think that's why actors do what we do. We like to play other people. It's therapeutic.

I find cooking very therapeutic. As a creative person, I relish cooking because it's such a creative process. You can cook anything out of anything.

Acting's not particularly complicated. But the great thing is you can step into somebody else's shoes without dealing with the consequences. It's very therapeutic in that way.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or television and probably television more than any medium is what influenced me as a child and formed my response to literature, story-telling and, therefore, the world around me.

Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind.

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

My thesis at school was on Wordsworth.

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.