Quotes About Imagination

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.

I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.

Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.

I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book.

I do not set specific work hours as some writers do. I generally stay with a chapter until I am satisfied, do very little rewriting, and if a scene is going well, I've been known to keep night owl hours.

Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.

Sometimes the expectation of being inspired in one specific way may close you off to the actual inspiration.

Write every day. You don't have to write about anything specific, but you should exercise your writing muscle constantly.

Art requires choices, the more specific, the better.

I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else.

I've always wanted to see what Egypt was like when they were building the pyramids or Rome at the height of the empire or Greece - more specifically, Crete before it was destroyed. Why? Because I'm curious how we all hung out on a day to day basis, what was the chit chat, etc. Reading things in a book never gives you the feel.

I kind of grew up on musicals, specifically, for whatever reason. They're something that really attracted me as a child.

When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.

We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.

A lot of screenwriters write certain characters, certain parts, with actors in mind. I don't really tend to do that. I describe them as specifically as I can, but I don't really picture anyone in particular.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

I like the idea that cinema is a spectacle.

Paris presents one incessant round of amusement & dissipation but very little, I believe - even for its inhabitants of that society - which interests the heart. Every day, you may see something new, magnificent & beautiful; every night, you may see a spectacle which astonishes & enchants the imagination.

The night sky, seen from a deserted foothold where no man-made light shines, is more spectacular than any giant cinema screen could ever display.

I have died in so many spectacular ways, and I remember shooting them all, too. I imagine all those deaths will flash in front of me when I'm on my death bed, faced with the real thing.