Quotes About Imagination

Fear is destructive. Fear and creativity don't mix. Ultimately, it doesn't do you any good.

Our minds aren't bound by a chronological corset. When thinking and dreaming, past, present and future are mixed up. That's also possible for a writer.

Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.

The characteristic of 'Oxygene' is a mixture of innocence and ambition, of trying to do something different in a different way.

'Born to Run' was a mixture of things but mostly about youth and fantasies.

I'm a weird mixture of being cynical but at the same time wanting to live in a world where Bigfoot lives.

In 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was just playing and having a good time.

I look back at my childhood, and the films that I remember the most are things like 'Mary Poppins,' 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,' 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,' 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.

You listen to something like 'Beast Mode,' and it's almost like looking at a pretty painting.

As a kid I always had Lego and Mecchano, model sets.

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Role models really matter. It's hard to imagine yourself as something you don't see.

I want to reiterate the fact that at the core of it all, I am a designer, a creator, and as a creative person, I will choose to be limitless in the extension models of my various ideas on design.

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400 or 500 years, well predating modern science.

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.

I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years old.

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

There's always moments where you creep yourself out, and you think you heard something and you convince yourself that some spirit is in the room with you, but truly, I don't believe in any of that kind of thing. A lot of my friends really do.