Quotes About Imagination

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

Hollywood is an idea. It's not a real place.

I think of real estate as a little bit like cooking or like art.

Shooting a movie should be fun! It's not a real job. It can be hard, but at the end of the day, we're dressing up and playing pretend.

In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don't always apply.

I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in a book, the animated movies, seemed to provide it.

Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.

Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I've ever had.

I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn't do that in real life.

I don't want real life necessarily to be seen only as a context to heighten the deepness my work.

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life.

The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.

I actually thought, like, I was sure 'Get Smart' and, like, 'James Bond' movies, I was sure that that's what real life was like.

I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.

I'm so different to the roles I play, and perhaps that's why they are appealing to me as an actor. But I would never want to inhabit my characters' shoes in real life.

I believe any fiction writer is inspired by real life.

Even if it happened in real life - and oftentimes, especially if it happened in real life - it might not work in fiction.

Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life that is wonderful, extremely rich, but I don't believe any artist would dare to say that artifice is better than real life.

In real life, writers tend to be quite boring, but in our books, we're having exciting adventures all the time.

It would be easier for people to grasp that gender, sex, and sexual orientation are different things if we had as much imagination in real life as we do when we are making our movies.

Fantasy is usually considered an escape, but it's also a way to deal with weighty real-world issues from a safe distance and in a context where you usually have some kind of power that you don't have in real life.