Quotes About Imagination

I was always writing. I've always been attracted to words and stories, communication.

I'm not very good at story. In fact, compared to character and language, I barely care about story at all.

A novel compared to film writing can allow the author to be more indulgent, and that extends to the characters and the story being told.

A film, I feel, is a state of mind. A film eventually comes from an idea: based on an idea, you make a decision, and once you make the decision, you keep comparing everything to that, but don't question the decision itself.

I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself.

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

I don't really picture anyone when I'm drawing. They just become their own completed person with googly eyes.

You don't know reality until someone makes a fiction of it. Reality needs the completion of fiction.

A lot of people ask me, 'Are you born a writer?' And I don't think it's necessarily true. I just think what you either have or you don't is this ability to see something that's complex and worth talking about.

There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.

I always compose on the harmonium.

When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.

When I compose for any film, I always work with the story in mind.

Whenever I watch a movie I like to imagine what sort of music I might compose for a scene, to create a particular kind of atmosphere, because when I see something I hear something.

When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.

I think of myself as a film composer.

I don't think that because l'm a composer I only have to compose music.

In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer.

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

No one has the Houdini school of composition.

No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.

If you close one eye and imagine a bright light constantly in front of the other eye, your vision is compromised. You can only see about 30 percent of what you should be able to see.