Quotes About Imagination

If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

The goal of art is to inspire people to look inward.

I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the 'BFG' on the iPad the other day and it was so interesting to see his descriptions of clothes and places.

On my mental iPod, I always have Stravinsky and Ravel.

If you set your story in Rome, Ireland or Sheboygan, for that matter, go there. If you're broke, set it in the town where you live, or where you grew up.

I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

My father told me fairy stories and he read to us. And my grandmother was Irish. She told us about 'the little people.' When I went into the forest I used to look for them.

It's so easy as a child to identify with 'Winnie-the-Pooh.' The humour doesn't talk down at you. It's a very grown up humour - a little bit ironic, a bit self deprecating.

Curiosity and creating ideas ironically are both democratized; they cost no money, anyone can do them, and it's up the individual and the force of their personality to give life to them.

It's the irrational things that interest me.

Anakattil Chackochi was a titular character that appealed to all irrespective of age and my son, as a kid, used to call himself Kochu Chackochi.

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

I've read everything that Isaac Asimov ever wrote, for a start. I'm massively into my fantasy genre, anything by R.A. Salvatore or David Gemmell. I've read every single book those writers have written.

The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

Jack Reacher is one of the sexiest characters in fiction.

I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.

I don't need to own one but I like to look at Diane Arbus's pictures and anything by Jackson Pollock.

I was into Jacques Cousteau as a kid and started scuba-diving around 14, which blew my mind. It was all colour, another world.

We play make-believe and dress up for a living. One goes, one doesn't go, whatever. I don't understand how you can get bitter or jaded. We're just so lucky to get to do this.

I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into, and I'll write myself out of their jam.