Quotes About Imagination

There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera.

If I am lucky and find material that is interesting to me, I want to make it.

Things aren't always as they appear. I've been believing things to be a certain way because I want them to be that way. I build up illusions in my head.

People just want good stories.

I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive with three dimensional magic.

Anything?" She laughed. "Like what kind of anything did you want?" "Well, when I was five, I wanted to take a bath in spaghetti." -Clary & Jace, pg.310-

And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write what you want to read.

Come with me," Reyn said. "I want to show you something." Frankly, I had expected something more original. "Really?" I asked, "That's it? That's what you came up with?

One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out

I'm able to do my television projects and movie projects that I really want to explore. For me, it's not about the money, it's not about the fame. I love creating.

I don't think anybody wants to see a dour Star Trek movie.

I think I have a very clear vision of what I want things to look like.

Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.

If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story with a painting, though. I'm trying to get away from the story- from the beginning and the ending.

This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.

I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish.

I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.

Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that wood.

It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature film.

If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want to be in a distant world.

I'm interested in the structure of art and how it works. And the content is also interesting, but I don't want to keep the same structure and just plug in new content every week.

I love horror movies, but it's not the only thing I want to do.

The people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something, and do not see life in terms of power.