Quotes About Imagination

'Jurassic Park' is probably the movie that got me wanting to make movies. It's fun, but it's not totally gruesome.

My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'

I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.

When you go to the park, there is no horizon - just Disneyland.

When I was a kid, I was hugely impacted by 'Jurassic Park.' I think I was just the right age when that movie came out, and I remember running around my town like a Velociraptor.

When I saw 'Jurassic Park' as a kid, that was the first time I thought about making movies for a living.

You know, 'Jurassic Park' is a film I always go back to a lot - it's a fantastical world, but I care about all the characters in that situation, and then I think in caring about them, it can make it relatable and help me kind of see this heightened world through, not always familiar eyes, but at least eyes I can understand.

Willy Wonka had his chocolate factory; I have my Fear & Fancy Parlor.

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.

People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.

As an adult I wasn't dying to participate in sci-fi projects.

Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.

The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what's happening in the story as I'm going along.

When I was a kid, I wanted to make movies. In particular, I loved animation and would love to have been an animator.

What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex stories for older children too.

I used to believe there were people on Mars, and of course now we know there aren't. Mars held particular interest. I was curious what kind of beings they would look like.

I did magic at children's parties when I was a kid.

When people talk about being a writer, the first words that come to mind are glamour and artistic parties like Charles Dickens used to mix cocktails for.

I have some NASA memorabilia from the early Apollo days that I can't imagine parting with. I've always wanted to play sort of like a space cowboy, too, like the idea of Captain Kirk. I think that's everybody's dream though, right?