Quotes About Imagination

I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid.

I like to write books that touch my heart. I want to entertain, and I love to entertain myself.

Most people say, "I can't wait to retire so I can play golf," or go yachting or whatever they do. Well, if I was playing golf, I would want that to finish so I could go and dream up a new TV show.

Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all .... as long as you tell the truth.

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.

I go where the story leads. And, sometimes, it is a little bit outrageous. And I relish that. I sort of want to be as much on the edge as I can.

As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

I'm most alive when I'm on set. Whether I'm imagining it on my head, I know what I want to capture.

No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

What will you do with them?" "Redo them in charcoal, probably." "And then?" "Tack them to my bedroom wall." Bedroom wall? "Who wouldn't want to wake up to this?

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.

The only guiding principle you can use is to make something that you want to see.

Whether it's Batman, Superman, Watchmen, the 300 story, we just make stuff that I want to see.

When I watch the movie, which is I don't know how many times I've done now with editing and everything, I walk out giddy just because I feel like that's the movie that I want to see.

You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

It is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself

First of all I think of puppets as sculpture. They are sculpture that moves. You could label it any way you want, but for me it always starts in my mind as a sculpture.

Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want to be a musician, an actor, an athlete -- but a maker is what people are going to want to be.

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write the next paragraph.

I just like to explore all sorts of different forms - no, 'explore' is not even the word - enjoy. You don't want to limit yourself to a particular form.

Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression ? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.