Quotes About Imagination

I write screenplays in the middle of the night.

In middle school, I was really into the 'Redwall' series, about anthropomorphic rodents in medieval times. I had a bowl cut, too, if you need the full imagery.

My dad's an English teacher and my mum's a midwife. Then my mum's side of the family are all crazy creative.

Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips.

I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.

I often draw from people in my own experience to base a character on, going back to my days with Mike Leigh.

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

I've got enough miles under my belt to know that whatever you envision in your mind, even if it comes true, will only keep a shape in the most general way.

Because I fell in love with the idea of films early on, not because I was in the milieu, but moreso because of the potential of having a couple of hundred people in a dark room, looking at a screen.

It blows my mind the way Frank Miller can write.

Frank Miller and David Mack are incredible artists.

I wanted to be Buck Owens and Bill Anderson and Roger Miller. With a higher-resolution video screen. And lasers.

All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million different ways. When I direct a movie, I'm going to use that.

It's not appropriate to a love story, or - there are a million stories you could think of that don't need 3D. A lot of movies don't even need color!

From the age of 14, I remember thinking I wanted to be a comedian. But that was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. It felt like a million miles away, something I could never do, but would be great to.

You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing.

If you look at 'Avatar,' could you imagine if you did 'Avatar' for 50 million dollars? It would be ridiculous! You would almost be getting laughs from the audience, unless you got a real indie director to do something incredibly stylised.

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

I still don't know how to jump-start a car, even though it's been told to me a million times. But I do love thinking about how creativity works.

People return to the same things. Charles Dickens wrote the same story a million times - and 'A Christmas Carol.'

If I had the opportunity to fight Khabib, or anyone ranked No. 1 - I've played that in my head a million times.

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years.

When I started as a filmmaker, I never, ever imagined in a million years that I would be doing television because, at that time, TV was a very different medium.