Quotes About Imagination

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.

All Pixar movies are heartbreaking, aren't they?

A lot of the album 'The Definition' was made from two things: Pixar movies and J. Dilla.

Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'

Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.

I've always loved film, and it started with Pixar movies.

I just love everything that Disney and Pixar do. Not only do they do beautiful films, but they have great messages for kids.

When I first landed at Pixar, I felt like I found this creative oasis with John Lasseter... It's what you thought Hollywood was going to be.

Pixar make kids' movies, but there are jokes in there for adults, and it never gets too sentimental.

I never heard one word in Pixar about, 'Will kids get this?' I don't think it's important that they get everything. I think that it's important that they get engaged, interested.

I used to hang out with a group of aspiring directors before 'Pizza' happened. We used to discuss a lot of stories all the time.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.

Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place.

I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within that context.

Lyricism was placed into my head in Ireland.

I am deeply humbled by the hope and trust that Londoners have placed in me. I grew up on a council estate just a few miles from City Hall, and I never imagined that Londoners would one day elect someone like me to lead our great capital city.

Sometimes the best ideas will come in the least inspiring places.

I get inspired from all different kinds of places - cartoons, comic books, movies and things like that.

The Sadies have the ability to create soundscapes, and to put you in places.

Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too.