Quotes About Imagination

One thing that's a lot harder to put into stories than you'd think is the idea of a traditional monster, because monsters with a capital 'M' don't inherently lend themselves to a story about your character. Unless one of your characters is themselves the monster, simply having a monster leads to a chase or a hunt.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

Monsters are evangelical creatures for me.

I think that most of the monsters I dream of, I dreamt of as a child.

The monsters are in your own head.

There aren't that many monsters. It's very hard to create a new monster.

In the Land of Ire, the belief in fairies, gnomes, ogres and monsters is all but dead; in the Land of Ind, it still flourishes in all the vigour of animism.

Imagination creates some big monsters.

Everybody loves monsters.

When I was a kid, I really got into monsters.

I love writing about monsters and food.

I still do love monsters. And when I was a kid, they were really important to me. I couldn't wait for Saturday night.

I love monsters.

There's so much art out there, and I'm happy to see people who are drawing monsters that are very simple designs.

One reason I loved '80s monsters is after I watched the movie, I could go into my room with crayons or markers and I could very simply draw these monsters that I fell in love with.

Kids in Spandex battling rubber monsters? It sounds beautiful. It does.

We have always been dreamers in Montana.

I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.

My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel.

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

It appears to be monumental only because it's art.

I love music. I love creating, so I just get inspired with whatever mood I'm in. Whatever the story dictates, that's where my mind goes.

Writing a song is about inhabiting a specific frame of mind and conjuring a mood, a character, an entire vision.

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.