Quotes About Imagination

I think 'Paranorman' was a great adventure.

What I've done is I've started writing a novel, so that's my big adventure.

I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.

It's hard to say if actual places really affect the way you write.

In my mind, I'm still that kid who gets affected by other people's music.

This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

I have an affinity for a lot of things that are kind of fairy-tale-ish and bookish.

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

I used to watch a lot of afternoon TV. I started imitating the movies then.

Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes, that's got a little bit of me, or a little bit of my own son in it'. That's where ideas come from.

For me, the aim of making any film like this, any film about an artist, would be to send you back to the art.

They say aim for the stars, but I want to aim beyond the stars.

I love telling stories. I don't really think in terms of clear 'aims.'

Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks - but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks.

From the time I was a little itty-bitty kid, I was going to the airport every day. I began to study all the airplanes, and I'd draw all the airplanes.

I don't think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.

I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.

The first film that I can remember seeing where, like, I just couldn't stop watching it - and it didn't necessarily make me want to be a director because I was so young, but it made me know that that's what I wanted to be doing - was 'Alien.' And I saw that when I was probably just over 10 years old.

I live in my head all day long and the world is a little dreamy.

I hear stuff in my head all day.

I used to watch all my friends play with G.I. Joes. I couldn't afford them.

I don't like allegory.

I like to use horror as allegory.