Quotes About Imagination

'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.

The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark.

It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book ever happened to me as a child. I didn't have an eventful childhood.

My love of movies started when I was 7 years old, living in a small town, going to the movies all the time, and finding the people in the movies more interesting than the people in my small town. Also, at that time, it wasn't that easy to find out about movies.

I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these people. I also fell in love with the movie business. So all I saw were actors on the screen so I thought, well, that's what I have to be if I want to be a part of the movie business.

I think growing up in such a small town - before cell phones, before the Internet, before Facebook, before we had access to people's interiors - there was a great deal of space between people's lives. I spent a lot of time imagining into the lives of the people I grew up with.

When you live in a small town behind the Pine Curtain, you live inside your head a lot.

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.

Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins.

You never know what you're going to end up with when you sit down to write something. At the end, if it holds, it can do this multifarious thing - which is to open things rather than close them, to make them bigger rather than smaller, to cross those divides which we live every day of our lives.

I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.

We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.

We should never forget that in the smartphone, the smart part is us creators.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

All artists draw from their lives, except they mask it and camouflage it... which is the smarter way to do it.

When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.

Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.

Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.

If I spend time visualising smashing someone, it's good to a certain extent. But when I overdid it, it put me under pressure.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

I never try to sit down with a moral because kids smell that and run.

But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.

During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job.

My studio is not arty. It doesn't smell of turpentine, and I'm not knee-high in paper.