Quotes About Imagination

I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.

Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.

Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.

Art and literature should help us to get out of our mental cocoons.

It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.

One of the bad things about being a filmmaker, about being me, is I can hardly read a book anymore because every time I read something, I have a poaching mentality, like, 'Oh, can this be a movie?'

When a child's mind develops and is heading in a certain direction, we murder that mentality, we murder that imagination, by saying, 'Now, that is all well and good, but now sit down and start to study.'

I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality.

Kids' shows appeal to a fun-loving mentality that I hope all humans, no matter how old they are, have some ability to relate to.

Music actually inspires me a lot. I listen to a lot of music, and often I find that if I can associate mentally a song or a piece of music with a particular character or scene, it helps me get back into the head of that character.

There will always be books as long as I am mentally capable of it.

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.

I don't want people to look at my menu and see just the ingredients. I want to take them on a journey.

At restaurants, I always get a kids' menu and color or draw on the tablecloth.

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.

People can die of mere imagination.

Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.

I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.

Well, chainsaw art is when you pick up a log and carve a mermaid or a dolphin or dogs or bears or whatever. I saw some people doing it in Malibu in the early '90s and I couldn't get it out of my head.

I'm a mermaid now, half my body.

'The Little Mermaid' changed my life.

I definitely secretly dream of being a mermaid.

I do love a conspiracy theory myself, but I'm more of an alien, mermaid sort of conspiracy girl.