Quotes About Imagination

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

When you're making anime, if you get all of your inspiration from anime... it's going to lack originality and creativity, so I try to get my inspiration from different genres.

Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.

I feel like at this point in the world of just creating anything, you're not going to be able to create anything new. I think the closest thing you're going to get to originality is a mixture of influences.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

'Finding Nemo' was originally shot in 3D.

I originally wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Then I had this huge fear of black holes because my brother learned a bunch of stuff about it, and he's like, 'Oh, yeah, if you go into one you're never coming back.'

I originally went to school to be a filmmaker. And so it's a big part of how I think and how I write. And it inspires me a lot.

I had originally been looking at writing, including fiction.

We all have our own party fantasy that we've either lived or wanted to live in New Orleans.

We're huge fans of 'Game of Thrones' for example, 'Orphan Black.' And even though those shows don't necessarily correlate directly with 'Arrow,' I'm a very big believer that writers are the product of their inspirations.

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

Imagine a world without art: it's George Orwell's nightmare!

I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.

When I was much younger, I used to practice my Oscar speech in the mirror. I used to beg my parents to be in movies.

Now I'm just loving the world of Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle so much. I really wouldn't want to go back into the world of Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling - where would the fun and adventure be in that?

Often, I dream about work. For instance, the night before the Oscars, I dreamt about the Oscars and I dreamt about who I wanted to interview. Interestingly, one of the people I really wanted to interview was Keanu Reeves, and then we got him. We had never interviewed him before, so that was lucky. Or maybe it was fate - I don't know.

We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends.

Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.

I would watch 'Sesame Street' and see neighborhoods and kids with other kids to play with, and I just didn't have that. You know, we were on a lake. We just didn't have that stuff.

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.