Quotes About Imagination

While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is solved.

When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.

To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example.

For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.

A lot of times, you think of things as being science fiction, but the creation of the ideas makes you want to solve them. Then, in solving them, they give us greater capability.

There's always some room for improvisation.

Some of my legal colleagues are the most creative people I know!

It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

It's amazing what some people read into songs.

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks.

There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

Some things that I write, you'll see a page with cartoon pictures or a drawing of a car - like a Ford - or a flag. I still do it on an occasion when a word is strange to me.

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.

Some things, I think, like fairy books and secret doors, are only meant to be found by children.

I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along.

I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.

I've drawn some things that have fallen very flat.

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind.