Quotes About Imagination

When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

When I was 14, I told my mother I intended to be in the House of Commons in the morning, in court in the afternoon and on stage in the evening. She realised then a fantasist had been born.

When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.

The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.

I probably revisit in my work the moment at which I realised that dreams couldn't be reality.

I realised I've got quite a talent for coming up with ideas for design. I've got so many ideas about fashion.

When I was about eight, I realised the person whose name was on the book got money for it, and it seemed almost too good to be true that you could get paid for making things up.

Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.

I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

I do not think that any realism is beautiful.

Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see things on their doorstep every day. But growing up as a kid in a very pretty but ever-so-slightly boring town, where not a great deal happened, encouraged me to be more escapist, more imaginative, and more of a daydreamer.

Having been a cameraman, I think about, 'Well, if this was real, how would this be shot?' I try to inject as much realism as much as possible.

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.

The beauties of the game may be lost on some of us sometimes, but many children will read about football when they will read nothing else, not for realism or glamour but for romance.

I realise that there's something about fantasy, whether it's written by the Grimm Brothers or J. K. Rowling or Thorne or J. M. Barrie, that it gets closer to the human experience than realism every could.

Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of virtuosity, is an optional extra. If you sacrifice expression for the sake of other concerns, you're putting the cart before the horse.

I read a lot of fantasy as a kid. I read 'The Hobbit' and all of the 'Lord of the Rings' books, but I also read a lot of realism like 'The Outsiders.'

Those of us who thought Jorge Luis Borges was a pioneer of magical realism were mistaken; he was a pioneer of science fiction.

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all about imagining with me.

In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.