Quotes About Imagination

Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.

It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a 3rd grade essay on someone else's work.

Sometimes, you can feel or see how a movie can... how you can do it. Sometimes it's just like seeing, "Can that work? Will people buy that? Can we do that?" And all those checkmarks.

I work best when a little scared, when there's so much more than the lines to think about.

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something than as a personal vision of the world.

I never outline. I don't work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds of the way through, I don't know how it's going to end.

I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.

To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art.

Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made is of little concern to them.

I love to fool my readers, but in a good way. If you've read any of my work, there's a good chance that at some point I surprised you.

The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined.

Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.

Voiceover work reminds me of old-time radio. When I was little I used to sneak and stay up at night and listen to Mystery Radio Theater - I loved all those old radio plays.

I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.

When you get into making movies, then the physical mundane reality of life must be presented. But in comics you can jack it up and work in shorthand.

You can make your life into a grand ever-evolving work of art. The key is your thoughts, the wonderous invisible part of you that is your spiritual soul.

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.

I work from almost a dangerous place in my mind sometimes.

rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.

When I'm shooting, as much as writing, I see edited footage in my mind, so I work that way, and it's economical.

[Ernest ]Hemingway always said, "Write about what you know." I think you can do that, and if you want to write about what you don't know, you can. It just takes a lot more work.

The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search of a poem - the poem comes in search of him.