Quotes About Imagination

Use your imagination. Look around the kitchen and see what you can use.

I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.

I simply believe food is too good to throw away - and Christmas leftovers can be a gastronomic opportunity for the well-skilled kitchen forager. With a little imagination, there are a million ways to use up leftovers rather than bin them.

You don't usually find an island in a New York kitchen.

My mother was creative in the kitchen.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

I've never flown a kite.

When I read 'Room,' I absolutely loved it, and I thought I knew how to make it.

I was always one of those people who thought my love life would be dramatic - a knight in shining armour would take me away on his horse. I was that girl; I'm still that girl. What better way to live that life than being an actor?

Something like 'Knock Knock,' I was trying to do a Joe Meek, 'Johnny Remember Me'-type thing.

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

A lack of street footballers dulls the imagination, dulls that natural thinking outside the box. You need that on the street when you're 9 and have to beat a 14-year-old on the dribble. Or if you get knocked out and have to sit on the side and come on.

Before I can finish one song, another is knocking on my door in my head.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

I would have loved to have been in Hong Kong, or China, in around the 18th century.

I'm Kubrick without the O.C.D.

I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.

I absolutely had a dream of doing 'Man of La Mancha' one day; that's a long time ago.

The first time I got paid as an actor was for 'Man of La Mancha.' So 'Don Quixote' has always been a thing for me.

My lab is like a fantasy world - it is more like a 'James Bond' movie!

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.