Quotes About Imagination

People assume because you're a comedian that you want to be an actor or that you want to be a writer too. It is a very cool kind of open-ended place to enter because I don't know if I ever really imagined myself working in a writers room or acting in that capacity.

In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.

I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school and taking that into Shakespeare and finding that opened up a whole world of self-expression to me that I didn't have access to previously.

Listening to A. R. Rahman as a five-year-old opened my mind to a whole new set of creative dimensions.

I got a dollhouse when I was six, and my sister would always say, 'You realize you're just talking to yourself. What are you doing?' That kind of opened up this creative need to tell stories.

I don't think there's ever a story the MCU tells that couldn't be expanded. They always leave it with some lovely doors that get opened.

All the Enid Blyton books - they opened my eyes to a bunch of kids living a life that was so far away from mine.

In fact, I don't think I'll ever make anything that will feel as divinely dropped in my lap as the opening of 'Wall-E.'

Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song.

Music is chaos. When I write songs, I'm opening the door to madness.

I typically come into any project knowing what the opening shot is and what the end shot is.

I like to create openings.

Being in a space that's not a studio, it kind of creates an openness of 'We can do whatever we want here; we're not on the clock.'

High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun.

The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing. It's just a pretty cool thing.

Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world.

I became a set designer for opera.

I want to do rock operas.

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera.

I operate best on big vision and creative detail.

I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.

I remember how my world expanded in amazing fashion by that magical operation of translating words into images, and images into stories.