Quotes About Imagination

When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.

I think if I did do something in another genre, it would be science fiction; I'm a big sci fi nerd.

I'd been on the Internet since the 1970s when it was just for nerds. I started saying, 'Who would benefit from this?' I started imagining a world where young people could have their own email address, back in the days of family AOL accounts.

Writers are nerds.

When I first started drawing the earliest incarnation of 'Optic Nerve,' I hadn't even been on a date; I hadn't had a romantic relationship of any kind yet, so in a way, I was almost writing science fiction.

I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how things come back to you.

Improv is so freeing because there are no bounds; there's no safety net. You just say something and get an instant response.

I want to make my own Netflix originals.

There's certain things that you can do on cable that you can't do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit.

World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'

The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

I never stop thinking about names of products. It's a process that happens 24 hours a day.

I'll probably never stop improvising.

Wrestling is a never-ending storybook, so sometimes you start going one direction, but the beauty of it is we could go in whatever direction we want, but things just changed.

When we started on 'Coraline,' there was a whole host of things that we had no idea how we were going to do. Because we were making films in a way that had never really been done before, we were taking this hundred-year-old art form and bringing it into a new era by embracing technology and innovation.

Kids have some of the best ideas - bringing new eyes to old problems.

I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.

The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.

At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?

I like to come up with new ideas and see them grow.