Quotes About Imagination

As a girl, I sat awestruck at the feet of Harriet Ne, author of 'Tales of Molokai'. It was she who used to say, 'I myself have seen it,' after telling a particularly hair-raising ghost story - a phrase that I borrowed for one of my titles.

A lot of early Misfits song titles are inspired by old B-movies, which were my Popeye's spinach when I was a kid.

I have a repository of titles I like in my head, and I am always looking for a movie that I can put one on.

I love books with titles like, 'How Do You Spank a Porcupine?,' 'Arnie, the Darling Starling,' or 'The Bat in My Pocket.'

I've always got maybe around four different titles in mind, maybe about four different ideas that I'd love to make.

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.

To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.

To be honest, if I was going to have any kind of fantasy, be it left-wing or otherwise, it wouldn't involve Margaret Thatcher.

To be honest, I don't think there's anything more exciting than an empty stadium. When you see it empty like that, all you see is possibility.

To be honest, I don't think there's any other show like 'Doctor Who' at all.

The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.

To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids. The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids.

To be honest, when I was growing up - I think it's because of Kate Winslet and 'Titanic' - I always wanted to do period.

When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.

Isn't it a rare thing, telling hopeful stories now? I think we need more of that, to be honest.

To be honest, acting was something where I got a chance to be somebody else and forget about the situation I was in.

I used to have a recurring black-and-white dream where I would drive in on a hover car and raid the shoe closets of this huge mansion. I don't know what that means at all, to be honest.

To be honest, I came up with the Carmella character completely on my own.

I really love playing a character that's a little younger than me, to be honest. Because even if it's just three years, I can bring perspective into it.

Usually with me, the ideas I have for movies just sort of pop into my head. I've read a bunch of screenwriting books over the years and, to be honest, they're mostly pretty crappy.

I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading.

In other people's books, I tend to love the really daredevil-y characters. I love Finnick from 'The Hunger Games.' And I think, probably, my favorite character of all time is Sherlock Holmes.

I always believe that most people could do it. I mean obviously I didn't just sit and stand. I used to love cradling the gun and just posing with the hand cocked ready to fire the gun, and the costume helped a great deal.