Quotes About Imagination

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

I kind of see clothes a bit like role-playing, depending what mood I'm in.

I don't know exactly where the ideas come from. One day, a sentence just popped into my head - 'There was going to be trouble, and, hell, he just wasn't in the mood for it' - and I knew I had a novel.

Mainly as an artist, I like to wear colors. I like to see colors, and it really helps my mood.

When you're trying to create imagery, you're trying to create a feeling or a mood.

Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.

Landing on the moon was a dream that millions of kids have had for hundreds of years.

Being the composer of 'Minecraft' is basically like imagining the distance between earth and moon.

When I was a kid, I just figured we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000.

It was hard for me to believe. I would look down and say, 'This is the moon, this is the moon,' and I would look up and say, 'That's the Earth, that's the Earth,' in my head. So, it was science fiction to us even as we were doing it.

We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan. Except to say that it will be a place familiar to billions of people.

Every time I get dressed, I try to channel a little bit of Kanye West and a little bit of Sailor Moon.

I often write about the moon, and more often than not, it is to symbolise a person, or a quality.

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

My position is that you've got to accommodate everything. I don't morally accommodate but imaginatively accommodate.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

If you live in a family or have five roommates, there's some sort of reality check, but when you live alone, there's a lot more leeway for your fantasy life to be more and more a part of your everyday life.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Give me more. Let's do what has not been done.'

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

That's what I care about most. That more people are making and more people feel like they are creative.

As an artiste, I want to become more people, play more characters.

Movies, more than anything I can think of, are a great escape from reality. My reality, in particular, needs escaping.

You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.