Quotes About Imagination

We have Common on one song called 'Don't Charge Me With the Crime,' which is one of my favorite songs. It's a story song. It didn't really happen to us. But it's definitely fun to have him on the track.

I was a big 'Charlie Brown' fan as a kid.

As a kid, I grew up watching movies in the cinema, so that dream and charm will never die.

I grew up around writers, and there was always a romance to them. They were charming. They would tell their stories of what they were working on, over the table.

Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.

I don't dream about the perfect script, though I check my mailbox every morning.

I like to check out of reality for a little bit when I listen to music and kind of go somewhere, so I feel like the more broken-down acoustic songs tell stories to me the best.

You're playing a role, but you're still feeling it. You can walk away from it after 'Cut,' but if you're playing a sad or mixed-up person, it's hard to stay in that place for these longish period of times. You kind of have to check out.

I never check my bank account. I know that sounds crazy. But I don't know how much is in there. I never know how much is in there. I have an idea - I have a bottom line - but I never look because I always make believe there's never anything in there.

I never realized how much I cherished having creative freedom.

Chess is a great game. It's a lot of fun, but sometimes you wonder what else is out there.

The way that I process and make writing work is I'm really telling true stories; I'm just putting them in a cape and putting an 'S' on its chest.

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

'Robot Chicken' was one of my favorite shows.

I'm Chicken Little and always imagine the worse.

There is a child in all of us.

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

Big Bird is based on what I learned as a child.

I feel like fame can get into people's head, and you always hear that child actors are doing this, or parents are making their kids do that. I feel like, since we're kids, we have an imagination where we can do whatever we want at any time and if that it is their passion, they will tell you.

Childhood reading is so important.

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

I would have loved to work with Cranko. I love stories. Even though I like a lot of style - Forsythe, Maliphant - I have this childish side that likes stories.