Quotes About Imagination

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

Tarantino's 'Django' amused me very much. It is as made by an adult that was still a child.

I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through stillness.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that.

I can be fascinated with very little things. The clouds stimulate my imagination, and sometimes I just sit somewhere and go on dreaming for a long time. Your head is also a computer. When you're dreaming, you are simulating a world in which you are living.

In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself.

I like to be in locations that I kind of feel are very creative, that stimulate me in a creative process.

The magic of theatre is how much can you stimulate the mind of the audience, not how many illusions you can create.

I just take inspiration from anything that visually stimulates me.

The image of the robot is very important to us, it's very stimulating to people's imaginations.

Lucid dreaming lets you make use of the dream state that comes to you every night to have a stimulating reality.

Music and space collide for me, as I find them incredibly stimulating.

It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.

All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

In sleep, we leave behind the sensory stimulation of the outside world.

Playful stimulation probably hits all kinds of synaptic possibilities. It is all make-believe and all over the map. The potentiality of the synapses and the potentiality of playfulness are a beautiful marriage.

I'm from the middle of nowhere in Somerset, and if I have too much stimulus or chaos, then I tend to not be as creative.

I have a Manhattan club chair in dark espresso leather that I always read in. It's a place where I can contemplate other people's thoughts and stir my imagination.

I think the job of artists is to stir things up.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

But I can't imagine Harry being a stockbroker at 35. That doesn't really seem the stuff of 'Harry Potter'.

I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.

When I was in fourth grade, I made a song about the part in Stockholm where we come from.