Quotes About Imagination

I built a fort when I was little, with pillows and blankets.

I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the fragments.

I'm rubbish at maths but I would like to have been a pilot.

When you make a pilot, you've never seen the show before; you don't know what it is.

For 'Orphan Black,' all I got was the pilot script, and that was enough for me. I was daydreaming about this part. I kept thinking about how certain scenes were going to play out and how these interactions were going to take place.

I'd love to play a commercial pilot on screen.

As a kid I wanted to be a pilot.

It is really difficult to read a movie script about yourself and to think that a major actor - perhaps even Chris Pine - is going to play this role is really daunting.

It drove me mad not being able to know more about Pink Floyd when I was a little kid. But that's the great thing - there was this mystery behind it, and we couldn't find out enough. It made your mind work, it made you seek after it or try to interpret it. It made you envision or imagine what they were doing.

I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.

Pink Floyd and Yes and some of the old art-rock bands, you didn't know what they looked like. You were always looking for pictures, and that added to the mystique. It's much more interesting when you're forced to imagine or guess at these things because usually it's better than reality.

I like expansive stuff that has a lot of space in it, like some of the early Pink Floyd albums.

What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to write. I wanted to evolve. I wanted to grow.

It was actually after I saw 'Pinocchio' that I thought I might try and work in that industry in some way.

When I was growing up in the Philippines, the story that was read to me most was Pinocchio.

Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.

In a single lifetime, roughly from 1865 to 1930, one finds the pioneering and patterning works of modern fantasy, science fiction, children's literature and detective fiction, of modern adventure, mystery and romance.

'Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.

When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.

I've always wanted to play a coach in a movie, just to be the captain of anything in the pirate ship of my bathtub.

Lego allows all levels of complexity. But a child can do their own thing at any level. They can built a pirate ship, for example, and then mash it up with completely different things.

If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.

I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.

I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.