Quotes About Imagination

I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.

I have these surreal moments where I'm like, 'I'm pregnant with Jake Gyllenhaal's baby' and 'I'm telling Robert Pattinson that he smells of sex.' But you're acting, so the focus is on the work.

I just like magical, fantastical stuff. I don't really see it as surreal when I'm writing. It's just, I write, and then I have an idea, and usually, they're quite odd.

Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.

Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.

I think everyone practices their Oscars acceptance speech with a shampoo bottle, and I've done my fair share of them. It's really surreal to be able to do it in real life.

A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.

If there's one thing that television doesn't really do, and has never really done, is to tell a surreal story.

I love anything that's sort of surreal and with fantasy.

When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.

I don't know why, but even my nighttime dreams are very, very rooted in reality. They just start to become surreal, little by little. That exact moment when you're about to realize that this might be a dream is my favorite thing.

Fulfilling your ultimate childhood wish is a surreal experience.

My world is so surreal.

Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

I love surrealism.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.

For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

Art and literature are my surrogate religions.

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever happened. Suppose this was for the first time. Just suppose. It doesn't hurt to suppose. Say none of the other had ever happened. You know what I mean? Then what? I said.