Quotes About Imagination

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

I remember trying to turn one of my Barbies into Storm, and I melted her hair off.

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.

Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.

'Can You See' is a beautiful song that follows a story of the star. It's a very inspirational song.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.

The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.

Reality, by itself, becomes a story by Philip K. Dick.

Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.

I'm always looking for a story.

You can get people to follow very intricate pathways of musical information, but it feels like a nursery rhyme or a children's story.

There's a story in 'Kabu Kabu' called 'Bakasi Man' where I got to explore the mind of a 'bad man.' It was fun.

One of the things that makes you want to be an actor, speaking only for myself, is that there's something infantile about it. You're suspending disbelief, pretending and entering into a story world.

Live action movies are someone else's story. With animation, audiences can't think that. Their guards are down.

If you can keep something very personal, like a song, like a color, like a story, deep in your heart, then nobody can destroy that. Nobody can destroy your imagination; nobody can destroy your love.

I always like to tell a story.

Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.