Quotes About Imagination

I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.

I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.

For me, Edge was just a character.

We love movies like 'Edge of Tomorrow.' It's why we go to the movies, and it's why we make movies.

When I write a story or think of a scene, I always play some song in the background. Sometimes when I don't add a song at the writing stage, I do it while editing the film.

I've just always loved books, and I love the idea that we're all just really made of stories. I do also like the idea that anyone can love books. Books don't care how educated you are or what you do for a living.

If you were around when 'Them!' or 'Tarantula' came out, those effects were as good as you had ever seen.

I wrote my first play when I was eight.

Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'

Most of everything I've ever written actually was written on acoustic. 'Do You Feel' was written on electric. 'I'm in You' was written on piano.

There always seems to be an element of faith in my writing.

We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories.

It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

Well, I think if you're telling a story, a three act structure will just naturally emerge out of it. But I also love it when a film doesn't feel like it's anchored too rigidly to that structure and you feel like anything could happen.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

I have the picture in my mind of how emotional I will feel if I win again.

The problem for me, with most movies for children, is that the filmmakers make the mistake of making it too simplistic. Where a child's world can be very complex, emotionally.

If you can't empathize with other people, then you will never really be able to write well about them.

A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

I feel like an emperor only when I'm writing.

When I got into the second half of 'Dragon Ball,' I had already become more interested in thinking up the story then in drawing the pictures. Then I started to not place much emphasis on the pictures.

I'm enamored with the art world.