Quotes About Imagination

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make.

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me. Steven Spielberg

I don't dream at night, I dream all day. I dream for a living.

But if oxen (and horses) and lions had hands or could draw with hands and create works of art like those made by men, horses would draw pictures of gods like horses, and oxen of gods like oxen, and they would make the bodies [of their gods] in accordance with the form that each species itself possesses.

It seems to me that to understand these early Greeks, it is better to think of them not as physicists or scientists or even philosophers, but as poets.

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

One day when I was little, and my parents were having a party, I went around to all the adults and said, "Drink this, it'll make you taller, it's magic." And they all drank it and said, "How cute. How weird." And then I snuck off into the room where they kept all the coats and hemmed everyone's sleeves an inch shorter.

The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.

When I was a kid we had a quicksand box. I was an only child, eventually.

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension.

A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.

When I was a kid we had a sandbox. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child...eventually.

Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn't pay for.

How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn't live there?