Quotes About Imagination

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.

Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.

I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you.

It does not cost anything to dream. Spend your time enjoying your big dreams.

I always like worlds where you could be in several different time periods.

Every film I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever interests me at that particular time.

We like to imagine that Shaun is in George Romero's universe, that it's happening at the same time as the Pittsburgh outbreak.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.

All the time it's a changing And all the dreamers are waking.

The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.

Most of the time I just keep to myself. I think like what it would be like to be... someone else.

Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.

Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed only by being painted out.

Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Stop this. It's undignified.

This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.

I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that.

Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.

For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.

I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time.

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.