Quotes About Imagination

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.

For me, I like to have mystery in the surf films.

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.

Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.

In fiction, we are not bound by social convention, so the things that mystify and unsettle are allowed to rise to the surface.

Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.

I don't have to talk to a surgeon to play a surgeon, you know what I mean?

There's a lot of imagination in Asia, and I believe that the next Google will come from there, and the next Pixar. I believe that the great new media companies will come out of Asia and surpass the big media conglomerates that exist right now in the West.

I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.

My imagination is rather limited, so it would be challenging to get roles that surprise me.

I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.

I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only the most general sense of what I'm doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going to go from Point A to Point Z is something I make up as I go along.

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.

Don't ever put anything past kids. They will surprise you in the best ways.

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.