Quotes About Imagination

What's fascinating to me is the way that multiple stories go into creating any world - a fictional world, but certainly the world that we live in as well. Of course, I cannot control that world. I can just control the fictional world.

That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.

After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.

Everytime I read a script now, I am able to imagine my character in multiple ways, which I present to the director or the writer, and we take it on from there.

Computers are extremely helpful and amazing for a multitude of scientific areas, but for me, when it comes to creation, they are insufficient and slow. Therefore, all of my efforts are to stay away from that beast.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

Growing up, I was always really inspired by Disney, and I had a great love of everything they created. My mum was huge fan, and she used to collect stills, and so they were all around the house, and we very much grew up on the early Disney films.

When you're a kid, you imagine acting to be singing and fighting and like the movies. Then you become an actor and get the reality, which is often a lot more mundane. But sometimes it's really nice to run around with guns saving the world.

I do not get caught up in mundane, routine things.

Muppet films are never easy to film 'cause Muppets have no legs.

Ryan Murphy's a brilliant director to work with who's very fun and creative.

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.

For me, imagination is more important in climbing than muscle or daredevil antics.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, 'Do this, do that,' but it's my demon who provokes me.

I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me.

I never know if I'm the builder or architect. The role shifts all the time. But what I have come to conclude is that the script is the muse.

A lot of my songs are inspired by a muse of some sort, whether she's real or not.

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.

I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes.

Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

I definitely think my work comes from things that I liked as a kid, and things I still like now. Monsters and magic and museums and movies, a lot of things that start with 'M' for some reason.