Quotes About Imagination

I think I'll be one of those moms that doesn't raise her kids with too much technology around because I didn't have much of that growing up. I was creative and played with what I had.

The character of the monkey just grew from something out of his face and my granddad's personality. They fused, and that's what I ended up with! The monkey belonged to a friend of mine, and I saw that it had such a little beguiling face and it grew from there.

I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?

If I'm on my own, I'll speak to 'Monkey' to generate new stuff for the act. I mean, I don't do it for moral support, although I wouldn't say that's out of the question. In fact, I could do it, I might do it... yes, I think I should actually start doing it more.

I prefer radio to television. Radio is a dialogue; television is a monologue. In radio, you have to interact - they put the words in your head; you build the pictures in your mind. To that extent, it is more engaging than television.

I remember finishing a monologue, looking up, and seeing people really moved and then being like, 'Oh, my imagination just took me somewhere completely different.' That was the moment I knew that this is what I wanted to do.

In third or fourth grade, I loved to sign stories and monologues.

One can become drab, dull, and boring doing the same thing every day. Writing helps break the monotony.

When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.

I'd like to be Marilyn Monroe for a day.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

Sometimes you see a monster sitting down in a chair and it looks ridiculous.

I can see every monster as they come in.

My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who was in the third grade at the time.

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.

I grew up with a lot of monster movies, robot movies, since I was a kid. I love anime movies, like 'Evangelion' and 'Ghost in the Shell.'

I want to create a kind of new monster language for kids to play with, pick up, and incorporate into their own vocabularies.

I don't think you can beat a costumed monster. It's brilliant. I'll take that over CGI any day.

When I was a little girl, I used to watch a lot of monster movies, like 'Godzilla.' All those monster movies.

I think, as kids, everyone is fascinated with dinosaurs. I definitely was. It is the ultimate big, huge, monster.

I think, the first movie I saw that made me go, 'How did they do that?' was 'Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster.'

If you're doing a movie, the minute you put a monster in it, it becomes a horror movie.

I've always been scared of the dark and aliens and monsters and things like that.

This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!