Quotes About Imagination

When I write, I can become this ecstatic, crazy fellow, hearing the voices and just loosening up and letting them grow.

The only successful way to write, and the only one I have found, is to be the character. Give up on trying to control them. Writers always talk about hearing voices. That's what they mean.

As filmmakers, we are interested in unique voices.

It's all about making an experience. You go to the movies to see something you've never seen before. You want to get different people out there with different voices. So you see awesome huge spectacle or just a small unbelievable story you've never seen before.

Doing voices is like singing and remembering songs.

Finding new voices with fresh ideas is the hardest and most rewarding part of a television executive's job.

Every Pixar movie has its own rules that viewers have to accept, understand, and enjoy understanding. The voices of the toys in the 'Toy Story' films, for example, are never audible to humans.

Just doing voices for cartoons is just a dream come true.

When I was a boy, I had a grand, big tape recorder, and I made late-night radio shows with glasses of water and funny voices. I just loved radio plays.

If you want to be a writer, you have to learn to write in other people's voices until you get the chance to write in your own.

My brother told me that I used to clown around with voices as a kid.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

Watching a film should feel like you just tore a hole out of the air and the void caught fire.

I guess when there's a real void in your life and your marriage has become rotten, you fantasize a lot of things.

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

Any creation of art is conceived and born under influences, amidst the atmosphere of reverie and the most customary volition of the artist. It is there, in any case, that his work arises from.

To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.

My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer.

The Soft Machine's 'Volume Two' inspired me heavily. That record just feels like it was all done in the same breath. It's genius, and it's silly at times. But I love the fact that every time I listen to it, I listen from the beginning and want to play it out.

I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all by myself by the time I reached the first grade. I loved stories. I loved the escape. I had a vivid imagination.

When I was doing 'Formula Volume 1,' I had so many ideas that I knew one album was not going to be enough.

If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd very likely write it all at once, though, so I could work on it as a whole and not broken into individual volumes.

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.