Quotes About Imagination

People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in my childhood. 'The Little Mermaid' was the first movie I remember seeing. 'Beauty And The Beast,' 'Aladdin,' those are three I remember right off the bat.

In acting, you have to fool yourself - you mess with yourself into believing things.

I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had left, and it was all a mess. So I lived in my head a lot, and I would get lots of books for Christmas - from librarians and teachers - and they just fed my imagination.

Really, I just sit down, mess around, and play with sounds.

I can use movie as a language. Not only could it send a good message, I could let people know about my thinking and how I see the world, how I see the colour, how I see the music, how I see everything.

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

When I write, I don't think about messages for my readers.

I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.

I can mark Messi only in my dreams.

It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.

A sense of play is important when I'm writing, and so messing around with, say, a magic routine can feel like play, at least initially.

I'm inspired by many different things. Often, I'm inspired by experiences I've had, books I've read, people I've met, stories I've heard.

I'm not Christian. I didn't meet Jesus. I met something that looked like it had come out of a 'Heavy Metal' comic.

I was very limited in what I could do with flying saucers, because they're just a metal disc. I had to try and put character in as if they were intelligently guided.

Language is memory and metaphor.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure.

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

Science fiction has always used metaphors and disguises, talking about alien civilizations or the future.

I was in love with metaphors and similes and alliteration, just the play on the words. I was fascinated with that concept.

That's what I like most about writing fiction over journalism: the easy metaphors!

I never think in metaphors or fully make those kind of associations myself. I just lay down a complex situation and hope things arise from that.

All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.