Quotes About Imagination

'Perfect Sense' is a film about love and catastrophe, which I hope is a powerfully romantic and emotional take on the apocalyptic sub-genre. Its aim is to be a minimalist concept movie - where seismic events occur in simple ways that ask the audience to use their imagination.

I've always believed that the most extraordinary results occur only when one feels unbound by any notion of constraint or limitation.

I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurred to me that anything like this could have been possible. I didn't have any such aspirations. And I still can't believe my good fortune.

I'm one of these people who couldn't imagine the future. The future never occurred to me. I just loved life every day.

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'

It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else.

Most of the things in 'The Things They Carried' didn't happen to me. Ninety-five percent of it's invented. It's not what occurred.

When I was a kid, it never occurred to me that human beings wrote books. It was a kind of cognitive dissonance for me... I just didn't think it was something that people did.

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.

I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

Isn't it crazy to think that we've explored space more than we have explored the depths of our ocean? That just fires up my imagination about potential sea monsters and cool creatures, that kind of stuff.

I think there's a lot of people in their dingy boats in the middle of the ocean pining for the days of closed-ended narrative.

I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though.

In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books.

I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.

When I was growing up, I loved the films where you'd start them and the score might sound really odd at first and really different, and then by the time you finish, you can't imagine it being any other way.

My life as an author has always been about brilliant, odd people.

Acting is an imaginative exercise. It would be odd if you didn't try to identify with the roles you play, but I think I can differentiate between where my imagination is leading me and where I actually am.

And oddly, when I was a kid I used to look at junkyards and I wanted to have one of my own.

I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life.

I remember going to London with my father in 1968 to see '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I just soaked in that movie. To me, that was real; it was going to happen.

The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

The cinema should offer new images, create new memories.

I don't believe in inspiration at all. We live in a world that demands explanation. And fiction has the capability to offer explanations for things.