Quotes About Imagination

Every once in a while, you are on the set and you look at it from the outside and you are like, "This is ridiculous."

The most exciting thing for me is crossing that bridge between something we know is real and something that is extraordinary. The thing for me has always been how you cross that bridge.

In whatever it is that I do, I find myself drawn to infinite possibility, that sense of potential.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.

J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.

Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. The stories we love best do live in us forever. So whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.

Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.