Quotes About Imagination

Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.

I wanted to make a film that gave the people who took LSD at that time the hallucinations that you get with that drug, but without hallucinating.

How many of you are creative? I don't know, but for me, when you make a bunch of things over time and then you keep them... you forget. I look through my sketchbooks and I'm an audience for myself.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our oldest daughter, wanted to be a paleontologist for a long time.

Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow yourself the time and space to let your mind wander and your imagination fly.

Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and what they're up to.

I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.

There was a time I thought I was a ferret.

It's fun to play characters in songs. I can just cheat a little bit... be this person for just a small amount of time and just help vent that idea.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.

When you start something creative for the first time, you are completely free, no real influences other than your own vision.

Science is the storytelling of our time.

Creation is always happening. Every time and individual has a thought, or a prolonged chronic way of thinking, they're in the creation process. Something is going to manifest out of those thoughts.

everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.

I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a lot of time thinking about things. I'd imagine all kinds of situations and how I would handle them.

My generation came at a time when photography was advancing by leaps and bounds, creating the impulse to experiment and seek new approaches.