Quotes About Imagination

I'm a huge fan of classic sci-fi.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction, horror, and fantasy films.

I am a huge fan of animation.

'The Lord of the Rings,' obviously, had a huge, huge impact on me. I read a lot of 'Hardy Boys,' also. I liked the equation, that it was always the same but a little bit different. There's something comforting about those books.

I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.

As a science fiction fan, the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award mean a lot to me.

'Spawn' was my favorite growing up, but I loved 'X-Men' and the 'Hulk' too.

I think creativity is a capability of human being. When we're born, we're - all of us has this capability. But part of us forget to use it.

A human being is not a machine. Especially when it comes to creating.

You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.

Everyone wants to escape, everyone's drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we're all so curious as human beings.

Human beings have always been mythmakers.

I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.

As human beings, we aren't as individual as we'd like to believe we are. And I think that's what makes acting possible. Despite the fact that I have not experienced something, I have it in my human capacity to imagine it and to put myself in someone else's shoes, and to take someone else's circumstances personally.

You have to tell a super story that has some fantastical element, but the human element is what's going to keep people watching.

Despite what everyone thinks about science fiction, ultimately, at its best, it's about human beings with human emotions.

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.

Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

If you're drawing humans, it can be detrimental to be too naturalistic, which is like animating little corpses.

In the case of 'Shape Of Water,' I want it to feel like a song. I wanted people to come out of the movie humming the movie.

It's hard to force creativity and humor.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.