Quotes About Imagination

For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they'll do in any scene you put them in.

There was a point of time when there wasn't anything new coming to me, but the same old scripts. But, the script of 'Thira' motivated me.

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

It's just that I can write something nice is what motivates me.

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.

Just looking when I was little at pictures of cars and houses that I wanted - it gives you a certain motivation, it gives you a goal.

With art, your motor sense should be developed at full capacity.

We have a motto at Naropa: 'Keep the world safe for poetry.' It's humorous but has some real bite to it. If the world is safe for poetry, it can be safe for many other things.

Fiction is not fact, but fiction is fact selected and understood, fiction is fact arranged and charged with purpose.

The wine of the grape had never stained her mouth, but the wine of poetry was inextinguishable mixed with her blood, entombed in her flesh.

He groped for the doorless land of faery, that illimitable haunted country that opened somewhere below a leaf or a stone.

Purgatory was a bit damp,' said Bengt, 'but heaven was more or less as I'd imagined it.

Purgatory was a bit damp, said Bengt, but heaven is more or less as I'd imagined it.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.

And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.

The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn't really see.

Your mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But to tell you a secret. All the best people are.

Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

Nice work, bone daddy.

As long as we have Netfix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration.

We can make two predictions, though. First, the more human inventiveness we encourage, the better that's likely to work out for us.