Quotes About Imagination

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

When you're making a movie, it's a very interiorised world.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

It's easy for me to write a horror movie about real stuff because my mind is always going there anyway.

I had dreams of conehead aliens when I was little. Before 'Saturday Night Live' did it. And then they came out with them, and I went on to be a glorified extra in the movie. When everyone else was laughing, I was scared.

The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.

I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize Theron would make a lovely Marie Antoinette.

My first movie I saw when I was a kid was 'The Jungle Book.' I was 5 years old, and I saw it in a movie theater. Seeing that movie really lit the fuse and ignited my passion for animation.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

I make movies I want to see.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.

I was the kind of girl who'd peep through her bedroom keyhole to check if her dolls were moving.

I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive.

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

Whenever I view success, I'm dressed as Mozart on an island.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer.

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

It's fun as a creator to make something that allows multiple interpretations.