Quotes About Imagination

I've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic.

When I started working in film, I loved photography, I loved the image, I loved telling the story within a frame, but as I started playing around with film and video, it was like, 'Oh my god.' You just have so much more to play with.

I studied photography at Bard, but I just felt tired of it. Someone asked me to be in a video but didn't want to be in it, so they told me to make my own, and that seemed more fun to me.

I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.

Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.

When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. We used to make these silly, stupid short films, which, looking back now, were probably horrible.

When I was little, I had this old video camera, and I set it up, and I would pretend that I was on comedy shows and soap operas and things like that.

I've always wanted to get involved with designing a video game.

Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.

I realize Twitter can be good, providing a video game of creativity for your brain.

Unlike other children, I did not get a branded video game. Mine was an open circuit that even buzzed.

There's a sense of fiction in every video game. It creates a world for itself that you want to obey.

Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'

Reading 'The Last Days of Magic' is like playing a well-constructed video game.

For me, 'Evil Urges' was like a video game. If you play 'Super Mario Brothers,' there's a level where it's like a snowscape, and then there's a level where it's a desert and a level that's like a jungle.

There was a board game called 'Sorcery,' which is one of my favorites, and I would often revisit the game. It's not a video game, but it definitely stands out in my mind as a game that impacted me.

Being in a video game just feels so cool.

I mean, I'm on a comic book. I'm in a video game. This is not real life.

I didn't grow up playing video games. I grew up catching crawdads in the creek and minnows and lizards and snakes.

I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school, throw down my backpack, grab my machete, and go hike and chop down trees to make a fort.

I love video games. I'm also slightly in awe of them. I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I'm in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, like really nothing else we've ever invented has quite done before.

I get most of my inspiration from anime and video games.

I played video games for years. I immersed myself in them. They're so beautiful. They have these gorgeous imaginary landscapes. And they were just very dear to me.

I think it's one of the coolest things especially as a young actor, actually at any time - even doing my stuff with Avatar - merchandising, video games come out and action figures and plushie toys. It really ignites the kid in you.