Quotes About Imagination

Putting my head on Ruth Buzzi's body - it's upsetting.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

I have several plan Bs: I want to become a sailor; I like to draw; I would love to learn many things, but I don't have time.

I'll always err on the side of art for art's sake.

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

We've been told the same story for so long. We've seen literally 1,000 'Lord of the Rings' movies.

Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels like the same thing to me anyway.

I was impersonating people way, way, way early, as far back as I can remember. And I would do people on my street for my parents, I remember. And in school, I did the same thing with all the teachers. It was just like, I mean, it was something I loved to do. I don't think there was a time when I wasn't doing it. I was always doing it.

I am a day dreamer. I visualise a lot of things at the same time.

I've always wanted to ride a sail barge and drive a sand skiff.

Everybody has the idea of Santa in their head and in their heart.

Everything that you want Santa to be, he is.

I never saw Black Santa growing up. I would have loved to.

I've always said that I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I could make a great movie about him if I set my mind to it.

I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all the things I could try, and one of them was writing a novel.

I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.

It's fun being creative and that's satisfying.

I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind that you had to create out of yourself. As I moved toward a life in writing, I found many of the things I'd learned in acting school still applied.

I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' when I was a kid. It was kind of like growing up playing a sport, wanting to be drafted by your favorite team.

Creativity saved me.

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.

This is what I think is fun about fiction - you get to use as much history as you want as scaffolding and then go beyond it and change it and mutate it.

I feel like every time I do a video I say I want to make it like a movie, I want to make it very entertaining. So I start to just scan in my brain for what I haven't done before so I can do something unique and ridiculous, and what that song means.

'Beetlejuice' used to scare me.