Quotes About Imagination

There was a time when I just loved 'Indiana Jones' so much. I was in fourth or fifth grade, and I wore a fedora like that one to school every day. It was so dumb.

I never had an imaginary friend, just imaginary circumstances. I was so into the Indiana Jones movies, and I would constantly reenact circumstances. I broke my left arm three times, two of which were me trying to be Indiana Jones.

When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be cowboys and Indians.

I want 'Dawn' to play like a cowboys and Indians movie.

As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.

Like all artists, I'm a complete cinephile; I see everything. I see past movies, present movies, indie movies, experimental movies.

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

Rather than deliberately trying to draw something, use something you yourself like and want to draw, and I think the characters that come out of that will really have their own individuality.

When I was younger and obsessed with becoming an artist, the hospital was my New York loft apartment. I would move the furniture around to create space on the floor, throw down some sheets and indulge in any form of art that I could get my hands on.

I hope many people can indulge themselves in the power of audio cinema.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.

That's the thing about dreams - they're ineffable. If you can get to the bottom of it, it's not a dream.

Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so?

I would think, as an artist, it's inescapable that you'll be affected by the world around you.

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

In my own work, when I start off writing a scene, I don't know which physical details are going to turn out to be meaningful. But, inevitably, certain images will stand out - you start to decide which ones are important as you go.

It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.

I wish I had funny dreams. My dreams are rare and inevitably end in my own death.

99 percent of what you see is not what comes in through the eyes. It is what you infer about that room.

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite.

Human experience is infinite. Lives are infinite. Stories are infinite. Just because one story has gravity in it doesn't mean you can't write a different one with gravity in it.

I have to always check back in with my imagination just to remember that I have this infinite potential, and I can do anything, and anything is possible.