Quotes About Imagination

I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout's vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back.

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.

You know, the thing that I do to waste time is think of things I want to make. That's how my mind is employed.

Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be.

Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a voice.

You see, in a world where elephants are pursued by flying men, people are just naturally going to want to get high.

I was shy, but I stood up in front of the class and I gave my report.I was reporting on books that I didn't want to read. I was inventing books that I didn't want to read.

I always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'.

When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of opening do I want for this book?"

There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.

The truth is, I just want do things that are original and throw an original spin on them.

I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

You create a little world when you are making a film and you have to feel that you would want to be a part of that world. I sometimes look at the scripts I get and think 'what are they thinking?'

There isn't a specific person in my mind that I'd want to play. Yet.

When a song wants to be written, it will be written.

Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated

I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to come with me where I want her to go.

The camera is your way to see what you want to see - it's an extension of the director's fantasy. I'm executing my personal fantasy, whether it's a fantasy of pleasure or of pain and fear.

Freedom, to me, is imagination, the power of imagination to create what we want and be who we want to be.

I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.

Drama is my sweet spot, but the thing about being an actor is that you want to do a variety of things. I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.

I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. I'm interested in the ways that I think people want to relate.