Quotes About Imagination

As a child, I had loved history because it showed so many alternative worlds.

I like to create characters and worlds, and there's nothing like telling your own stories.

I think that the two worlds of fashion and acting world have a lot of common things, because we all build a character.

In an ideal world, I would constantly be doing different characters in different worlds.

Guillermo del Toro is able to invent his worlds. I would find the pressure of having to invent crippling.

I grew up in Asia, and I remember as a little kid being in Taiwan watching films there and being so awed by these new worlds of entertainment.

Science fiction to me is the ultimate art form, because it speculates on bodies and worlds that don't exist.

We used to go to movies to see stories about ourselves. It would transport us to new worlds and we'd see aspects of ourselves reflected back.

Prompting children to create imaginary worlds is hugely important.

Books are low-tech, portable packages of the widest range of human experience, presented in a format which gives time to grasp complex ideas or to spend time in imaginative worlds.

I think within the ideology of what 'Trek' is, that it actually makes the daunting task of making something new more manageable, because it's part of 'Trek's' very design to tackle new worlds and characters.

We love creating these fantastical worlds, and that really comes from things like 'Strawberry Fields Forever' and 'I Am The Walrus.'

I always wanted to direct stories that are big scale and fantastical worlds.

If you do believe there's going to be a world like The Jetsons,' where everybody jumps in their rocket - very Star Wars' or Star Trek' - and people are exploring new planets and new worlds, then we've got to get the first one right.

The world of children's books is a very friendly, decent place to be. It's full of people who are desperate to enlighten, interest and excite children in ideas, imaginary worlds and contemporary issues.

Artists, in theory, should not be limited to their personal experience, culture, identity, and worldview. But they must also accept that the degree of difficulty in imagining beyond their own borders is steep, and the failure rate is high.

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes.

If worms had machine guns, then birds wouldn't be scared of them.

There was a 'magic rock' my mom would lift up, and under the rock was a bunch of bugs. Roly-poly bugs and worms. Somehow I thought that it was a magical world of insects, and I wanted to go there. It was the same impulse as 'Pikmin' - I wanted to go into that world.

I've worn costumes all my life. I'm a theatre actress, you know. That's what I do for a living. I dress up, I wear makeup, I make a fool of myself.

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

When I'm too worn out or in pain, I lie in bed and write in my mind.