Quotes About Imagination

The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.

I'm a dreamer and a realist.

The 'Dezeen's of this world are extremely inspirational but have no realistic dimension any more.

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic.

Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.

Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror.

I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit.

I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.

Coming back from doing 'The Hobbit,' you think 'Sherlock' is realistic, but of course, it's not that realistic.

I would rather be part of something that is entertaining than realistic.

I think the more realistic you try to make the graphics and the experience, the more you limit yourself to a single vision.

I would try to write 'realistic' fiction, and someone would fly, or there would be a black hole full of demons or a girl who attracted frogs.

My stories include realistic fiction and fantasy.

I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or done in a realistic way.

I don't think most of our films should be realistic, but you want that as an artistic possibility. Then, the artist can take the realism of the world and push it in ways that we can connect with.

It's hard for me to consider something in cinema or theater as something realistic.

I thought, well, what about a show that stars undersea creatures, and some of the ones you rarely see animated. So, from there, I just started drawing different animals in a kind of a setting that was this nautical world. It's not realistic but sort of a fantastic environment.

It'd be awesome if you could see an actual player's faces projected onto an in-game character in a multiplayer game. Imagine how realistic that would feel.

The water in 'Life of Pi' is very realistic.

I shattered the notion that a movie had to be advertised with realistic elements from the story.

Our 'realities' are make-believe - whatever we make ourselves believe, we experience.