Quotes About Imagination

One of the reasons I got into acting to begin with is that I was trying to figure out how life worked. It was interesting to me to try and follow how other people, real or imaginary, would deal with problems, because I was trying to deal with my own problems.

There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is beyond what we do - or would want to see in real life.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.

I'm fortunate to have a baby girl who's super into everything that I say and do and really cooperative and just fun to be around. I couldn't imagine having a rebellious kid like me.

As long as I can recall I've always wanted to make cartoons.

When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child.

Every little job becomes a dream, and you don't recall it anymore, and maybe you might have a deja vu moment, but it's like something you dreamed earlier.

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of being able to turn words into stories. It was a miracle.

What we recall as children is a version of what's happening around us.

I grew up in Spokane, Washington, and I can't recall ever not wanting to be an astronaut.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.

The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults.

The biggest and most important part of our childhood was making movies. Our whole drive in life was to do this for a living, and then also to try to recapture that feeling that we had when we were telling those stories in the summer.

My idea about the role of artists is to get people to look at things in a way that's different than the way they normally would if they are being told how to think, what to do. I think when people receive information through art, they are more open-minded.

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.

Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12, 13 or 14, they're still deeply affected by what they read, some are changed by what they read, books can change the way they feel about the world in general. I don't think that's true of adults as much.