Quotes About Imagination

Obviously, as an actor, you have to embrace your imagination all the time, but when you're doing one of these films, you have to embrace your most childlike imagination - a sense of wonder and uninhibited playfulness.

Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself.

I can make rhymes. My style of writing is kind of childlike anyway.

I have a childlike spirit.

Books, the children of the brain.

By the time I'm done with my show, I'm in Never-Never Land. Usually I leave the room for the auction and try to chill out.

I think that what's unique about sci-fi - at least from the view of a lot of Chinese writers - is that sci-fi is least-rooted in the particular culture that they're writing from.

I always say, 'I love chocolate, but I'm not Willy Wonka.'

I thought Willy Wonka was brilliant. He had all kinds of candy. Who doesn't like chocolate and candies? Everybody wanted a Gobstopper. I just think he's brilliant.

The choices I make - they have to be creative.

If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer.

There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written.

If I weren't an actor today, I would have been a choreographer for sure.

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality.

I think we love the escapism of something like 'Cinderella,' and I think we do with 'Thor.'

My dreams kind of came through when I went to see the cinema.

If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores.

I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

The only acting I knew when I was a boy came from Lochgelly. With a double bill, people would live their lives in the cinema. You would even see babies being breastfed in the audience.

I love going to the cinema and thinking you're seeing something, and you end up on a whole other planet, and you can't believe it.

I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.