Quotes About Imagination

I like to invent the dialogue that I want to have heard.

You only see what your eyes want to see. How can life be what you want it to be?

Some people see what they want to see.

Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up? Marji: I'll be a prophet.

Create the world you want to see.

Nothing will enrich your life as much as the appreciation of art. If you want to 'Live Rich', you have to - absolutely have to - include art in your life.

Why do I love writing? I can be who I want, do what I want, hurt who I want, and make the world over, just the way I'd love to have it.

Write the book you'd want to read.

Design is the underlying skill that activates innovation. If you want to innovate, you've got to design.

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.

I watch 'Sons of Anarchy' and 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Walking Dead' and think, 'I want to create that kind of television!

I do like to play people I wouldnt want to spend five minutes in a room with.

It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.

I like to make people happy, and with fairy tales, I can say anything I want to, but in an agreeable way.

In the future we'll be able to mentally contact anybody we want, see whatever image we want. And when we don't like it, we'll just turn it off.

Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be ashamed of [and that] we should take science fiction seriously.

When I open a refrigerator door and the light goes on, I want to perform.

I have this habit of asking 'why do you want to do it?' and then interrupting them to say, 'here's why you want to do it.' Because it's in the 'yes...and' spirit [rule of improvisation].

My Dad always told me that casting agencies are like artists picturing their paintings in their mind. They know what they want for a role and not to take it too seriously [if I dont get the part].

Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or a short story, you get shut down."

People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

This is why it is good to remember: if you want to get high, don't drink whiskey; read Shakespeare, Tennyson, Keats, Neruda, Hopkins, Millay, Whitman, aloud and let your body sing.

The reason I start a novel is because there's something that excites me and I want to explore it.