Quotes About Imagination

When I was about six or seven, I did this character reenactment performance where I read a monologue from 'Peter Pan.' I got into a complete Peter Pan outfit and did a little paragraph from the script - and I ended up winning an award for it.

Peter Jackson has the sort of imagination that no one else has.

I'd done 'Peter Pan' in a little pre-K class or whatever.

'Peter Pan' is tried and true - it's a story that everybody knows.

Every film relies on our brain and heart to expand its universe. 'Petite Maman' leaves room for your story to be looked at in that room.

Y'all know how we have dogs and stuff right? So I think it was bigger people in the world before us, and the dinosaurs was they pets.

I never said finish the Congress, because the opposition is needed... I do not have such petty imaginations.

If you fear phantoms, you're like a child frightened of seeing things in the dark.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

I went through a phase where I watched 'Jurassic Park' every day for about 13 or 14 days after school when I was young.

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.

I think everyone goes through a phase of longing to be little - I always wanted to be a girl who could sit on a man's lap, but that is just not going to happen.

I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.

Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena.

I've seen 'Absentia,' which was amazing. I loved 'Absentia.' I loved that for no money, he was able to make a movie about something that you never saw. You never saw the bad guys. That was amazing to me. You never saw what you were supposed to be afraid of; you just knew you were supposed to be afraid of it. It was a phenomenal movie.

For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn't your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon.

I was obsessed with Philip K. Dick.

I'm a huge fan of Philip K. Dick.

I used to read a lot of Isaac Asimov and Philip Dick and 'Inland Empire's' one of the earlier books I read!

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist.

Snoopy was a philosopher in a way.

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling.