Quotes About Imagination

It's such fun to take a lot of people and create something silly.

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

There are a lot of silly projects out there.

We are so aware of how silly our movies are as we're making them.

I do like writing. When I was a little kid, I used to love writing funny, silly stories - and my mom would always encourage it. I don't know why I ever stopped!

I was always putting on plays for my family. Usually silly ones. I used my imagination a lot, and it was something that came naturally to me.

A lot of the stuff that I want to create personally is usually pretty absurd or silly comedy stuff.

At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

I remember watching the 'Iron Man' cartoons when I was younger. I remember reading the origin stories and some of the Silver Age stuff, and I read 'The Avengers' - 'The Defenders' and then 'The Avengers' - and that sort of brought me into 'Iron Man.'

I've not done badly for a boy from Stockwell, where I used to gaze at the silver screen in wonderment, little realising I'd be a part of this magical world.

All great scripts need not reach silver screen, and every good story can't be narrated in a 2-hour film.

Good movies beget other good movies. So when a movie captures the imagination and hearts of people around the world, it's going to have a positive influence on similar genres getting made.

There are so many possibilities of life out there that an alien doesn't have to have green, long tentacles. They can be very similar to us.

It's true that writing and pastry-making are similar, but when you work as a pastry chef, you can get a kind of mania that everything you see is related to pastries.

Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.

We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture our imagination because they were actually so similar to us. They were very civilized. They had a very similar political system.

When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing.

I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. That's acting.

I always imagine that if I met Dr. Seuss, he would be very similar to Crispin Glover.

Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.

When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life.

I think there's such a fine line in a relationship. The role of imagination and privacy... how much space can you allow before that becomes distance? And similarly, imagination is empathy. That's how you achieve empathy. It's how you can be with another person and understand how they are in the world.

My husband, David Simon, and I make our livings using our imaginations.

It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.