Quotes About Imagination

I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming.

Your instincts for what's dramatic are the same whether you're working on a drawing or on a script.

I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.

I always tend to think that composing is not playing an instrument, composing is having something in your head that's steaming and it has to go out. It has to become sounds and be written. It's an emotion that you can't repress.

I had this instrument that I built in high school. It was a huge, six-foot-long stringed instrument, and I started playing with that amplified and singing through power electronic stuff. I played those shows, and it would blow the lid off of everybody, and everybody would flip out.

I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I'm trying to say and I'll think about that for a couple of days until it's all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it'll just fall out. But the song's kind of all ready there in my head.

I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.

I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.

As a musician, as a horn player, sometimes I even get bored listening to all instrumental music.

I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.

An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

There are a whole bunch of instruments I'd like to build.

Acting is a really insular thing.

A song is the most intangible thing in the world.

I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.

A brilliant mind having a eureka moment could not create an Intel microprocessor containing a billion transistors any more than one person could dream up a Boeing 787 from scratch.

Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.

The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.

Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work with. He is fun. The entire time, he would go in and out of different characters, just for the fun of it. Awesome energy.

Actors go into it because it gives us the chance to play people a great deal more interesting than we are, and to say things infinitely wittier and more intelligent than anything we could think of.

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.