Quotes About Imagination

I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections.

If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas.

Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

A sketch is just a mini movie.

I went back over the sketch books I'd filled at Sheffield for ideas and discovered Wallace and Gromit, except Gromit was a cat then. I made them into Plasticene shapes and started 'A Grand Day Out.' It took me longer than I expected.

Without realizing it, I think I've wanted to do a sketch show since I was, like, 11 years old. Like everybody else in comedy, I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live,' and I was doing characters with my friends.

I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.

Usually I start with a concept, which I then sketch out so that I can get a feel for the character. The character doesn't really become real to me until I draw them.

I have a sketch of an idea and I never really talk about: perhaps do another jazz record, but with other elements involved.

Before I ever begin writing a new story, I have to sketch my characters out on paper. It's part of my process of understanding who they are.

Sometimes, I sketch, but not every day. I sketch random things, whatever I can get my mind into. I'm not a professional, it is just a hobby I've started.

What I love is getting a new joke, or a premise like a sketch idea or a movie idea. That's the best feeling for a comedian.

Life experiences help in understanding the character. And many things come to your mind regarding the character sketch when you read the script as many times as possible.

I love drawing. It's a passion of mine, and I'm a creative person. I always have my sketch book with me.

I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.

I was a big fan of sketch comedy and cartoons growing up.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

I wish I still had all of my old schoolwork. I'd just have all the sketches around the schoolwork, and none of the schoolwork done. Just sketches all around. I was always doodling something.

I think I saw 'Ghost' at, like, 6 or 7 - like, a little too early to see 'Ghost' - but I would watch Whoopi over any kids' thing. Everything she did was so funny, and all of her scenes are almost like sketches.

I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.

For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for the most part, my characters go along with it. I write intense character sketches and long, play-like conversations between me and them, but they stay out of the book writing itself.

I was always doodling house sketches.

All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.