Quotes About Imagination

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

'Don Quixote' is a very political book that has been used by diplomats, politicians, guerrilla fighters, to inspire people, to convince them that they themselves can become quixotic. George Washington had a copy of the book on his desk when signing the U.S. Constitution.

There's nothing like meeting a girl at a signing and her telling me that she loves reading now, and she's even writing her own stories.

I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.

I can't imagine writing a novel without some sound. When you're facing a few hundred blank pages, silence can be cold.

I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.

When I want to get inspired, I'll put a Pixar movie on silent and listen to Nas.

When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.

I was a silent actress: a body. I belonged to dreams - to those who can't be broken.

If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything.

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.

Being an author is fun. It's a great job, because I can stay up as late as I want, and if I feel like taking the day off, I do it. Plus, I get to make up silly stories and draw pictures all day.

Sometimes the stuff I come up with is so silly I feel like I need to apologize at the end of every one of them.

When I was a kid, I'd create my own movies at home. I'd record myself doing a scene, then stop the camera, change my clothes, and do a scene as another character. It sounds silly, but I just loved to tell stories.

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.

Anything that was perverse and silly would be Kids in the Hall.

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

I decide what character I am. I allow myself to become another person. Because if I'm just Stephanie, I'm not comfortable. When I have to jump and do all these things, I feel so silly, but if you become someone else, it's okay.

As a little kid when I would watch 'Monty Python'... that would just blow me away because it was just so silly and absurd, but so intelligent, and I loved that.