Quotes About Imagination

One of the reasons a lot of actors go into the business is that for a short period of time, you get to be other people who you can only fantasize about being, by and large.

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

My great fear is not that I'll run out of ideas. It's that I'll run out of time.

Creatives are feared and ridiculed... and at the same time highly valued for their ability to see things that others do not.

When you see natural disasters caught on film you realize how well they had been imagined by Hollywood for such a long time. It's all good fun. You never know who's gonna survive and who doesn't.

My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job.

Improvisation, for me, is when the cameras start rolling, we don't know where we're going and let's just waste people's time and money.

One time I covered a wall with 8.5×11 pages of drawings, which made things feel a little bit different in the room.

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.

My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatevers coming next.

The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the time it's not a creative writing book per se.

The Farrelly brothers make movies the way you imagine a movie set would be when you're a kid - fun all the time.

I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.

Yeah it feels a bit more tangible, I suppose, even though you're in a green box for part of the time.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.

To be creative, you have to be wrong most of the time.

By the time I was a teenager, there wasn't a show I hadn't inhaled or a character I hadn't met.

As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all the time

I helped develop Disney's) special effects department at that time, which helped very much when we worked on "20000 Leagues under the Sea"

The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

The cinema is - in Jean Cocteau's famous words - 'a dream that can be dreamt by many people at the same time'.

There are six Time Warp Trio books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.