Quotes About Imagination

I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.

You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can't invent more time.

Anytime I am spending time with my son. We went to a theme party recently and it was Toy Story. He was Buzz Lightyear, I was Woody and his mom dressed like Woody's wife.

I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.

I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.

It was when I was the age where you can, as they say, "hear voices" without worrying that something is wrong with you. I "heard voices" all the time as a small child.

When I was little in Spokane, Washington I drew all the time... and my father would bring paper home... and I mostly drew browning automatic water-cooled sub-machine guns... that was my favorite.

It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of people won't even read science fiction books.

Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.

Usually my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it.

One of the wonderful aspects of the human imagination is its power to break through the barriers of time and space. It can see things not as they are but as the can be.

If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos.

I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.

Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time

Hasn't it been a long time since you had a flying dream?

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

I am the thing that I am painting at the time of painting.

We ask the public to believe that every time they see an actress or actor that they are a different person.

I make film to make time pass.

What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.

Just throw me in a time machine, hit random, and wherever I land would be great... Just being thrown into a different time really fascinates me.

I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.

Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.