Quotes About Imagination

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.

Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

Growing up, I was a giant KISS fan, and the truth is the record I had was 'Rock and Roll Over,' and there wasn't even a clear picture of them in the packaging! So I really had no idea what they looked like; I just loved their music.

The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.

I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to have some idea of the shape of the novel, where its headed, so that I can proceed with confidence. But the truth is my characters start doing and saying things I don't expect.

The truth is that I've always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a child. I used to see these English movies which were shown to us in our school every Saturday, and then I used to enact the hero's part in my head.

The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.

The truth is, as you know, people like us look at what's happening in the world, and then we project it forward. We think, 'If I know A and B, then I've got to know that C and D are coming,' and that's kind of the way it's been with my fiction.

I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.

Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.

Short film: you can be poetic and you don't have to answer anything. You can make whatever you want. You have creative freedom with short film.

If we make people believe that before the age of 16 they got sick drinking vodka, they don't want to drink as much vodka.

Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there!

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

Your imagination is the movie trailer for your future, so nurture it always. Logic will get you to the next level, but only imagination will take you to the level you really want to find.

Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it.

When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that I want the story to be memorable and the characters to touch the reader's heart.