Quotes About Imagination

I certainly wasn't the kind of kid that grew up collecting bugs and spiders.

I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes.

Real-life things, like spiders and snakes, that doesn't scare me, but if it's a monster or a ghost or an alien, that will always scare me.

The dream of doing what I do started with watching movies by Mr. Spielberg, like 'Close Encounters,' 'Poltergeist,' and 'E.T.' That was the beginning of my obsession.

Although I've watched most of Spielberg's films, I haven't watched many animated films. I prefer reality over animation.

I consumed Spielberg movies when I was little.

I grew up on Spielberg and Lucas. That was sort of what inspired me to make movies.

My siblings and I had this theory that my parents were spies.

I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.

I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.

When I get a beautifully written piece of material, I immediately start imagining how I would interpret it. I love just daydreaming about it for months, breaking it down, seeing where I can spin something. How I can turn this into the most fun ride for the audience that I can make it? That's my job.

Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.

Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

As long as the world keeps spinning, I'll keep riffing.

In my writing class, we never, ever talk about the writing - ever. We never address a story that's been read. I also won't let anyone look at the person who's reading. No eye contact; everybody has to draw a spiral. And I would like to do a drawing class where we could talk about anything except for the drawing. No one could even mention it.

I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.

When I write a song, the music comes from my spirit, which is very playful and optimistic, but then the lyrics come from my head, which is in a different space.

I think it's the Canadian spirit that encourages people to dream a little bit.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

I want to be Willy Wonka. He has a really fun spirited side but also a dark, justice-giver side.

I love 'Spirited Away,' that's a huge one.

All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it's any good, it has a healing quality - a quality that enlarges our human spirits.

In the imagination, Harlem will always be the spiritual capital of black excellence in America.