Quotes About Imagination

Acting makes you live plenty of lives.

I just want to make sure that I give the animators everything they need, so they have plenty of choices to match their animation.

I feel like there is plenty of room for fresh ideas, always.

Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film.

I hate SF books that think all you need to make a book is cool technology and mind-bending ideas without a decent plot or characters. And I hate when fantasy books are allowed to ramble off into five hundred page diatribes which don't advance the story one bit.

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!

I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the years. Usually, I come up with a situation or a character, and it rattles around in my head until the story or the plot emerges.

Sometimes I'll feel down and realise it's because of a depressing plot.

I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.

I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.

The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.

Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I figure out what the story is... My process is a bit messier.

I feel like I know how to write plot.

I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.

I never make a note of anything; I never even write a plot down.

You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos.

I never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while.

Sometimes, by using the most over-the-top, ridiculous plot device you can imagine, you get some interesting little conflicts and cool things that you might not otherwise have a chance to explore.

The great thing about a parallel-dimensions story is that you can literally never run out of plot.

You don't idea your way into a plot but plot your way into an idea.

When you describe a character's dream, it has to be sharper than reality in some way and more meaningful. It has to somehow speak to plot, character, and all the rest.

I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring.

I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a lot of authors do.

I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.