Quotes About Imagination

Creativity is a business imperative.

I love getting into people's brains and understanding the creative impetus for something.

If things are not so good, you may be one to imagine something better. For me, I was able to imagine myself as in a role of greater importance than I would seem to be ordinarily.

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

Any educated person recognizes that curiosity and creativity aren't just important; they are among the essential human activities.

Art is such an important part of our culture.

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

Books have always been an important part of my life.

I think Disney plays a really important part in fashion.

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

I think one of the most important things for creativity is boredom.

I always thought that life is full of stories and characters that feel like literary stories and characters. So when I started making documentaries, they weren't humble empirical things, just following people around. I was always trying to impose a story.

It's impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

I was very impressed by Walt Disney and the idea that you could have a dream and you could realize it to the point where people could walk around within it... It still resonates with me. I wanted to be somebody who believed in their ideas that much.

In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.

One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories.

With bad sci-fi - sci-fi that I don't really like - you watch it and get the impression that you're just seeing exactly what they created because they needed it in the movie. You feel like there's nothing more beyond that.

Acting is what I dreamed about when I was doing those impressions as a kid. Even if I didn't know it yet.

To see somebody create something from nothing is incredibly impressive.