Quotes About Imagination

The short story has been here and is here and will be here as long as we are.

Kids only have a certain number of years to be kids, and the last thing we should be doing is incarcerating them for wanting to make that short-lived magic last.

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

I love film and, particularly, shorts. You don't get to see them often, and they're a great little form, like a short story.

I've storyboarded for things other people have shot. So thinking in shots and orchestrating shots is not foreign to me at all.

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.

Books have shown me horror and beauty.

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

I'm always in awe of improvisers that make something out of complete nothing.

If I'm really excited about a scene, I used to wait to write it, and now I'll just write it. When you do that, all sorts of awesome things can happen from just giving in and writing that scene you're excited about.

I've always loved movies and loved the idea of playing make-believe. That was my favorite game, growing up as a child, was make-believe, and to be able to do it as an adult is awesome.

I know it's a bit of an awful thing to say, but I really just make things up. My main goal is to make a picture that people find interesting to look at and that has my name on it.

There's going to be an awful lot of people who are going to get the opportunity to go up and explore among the stars.

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

I've always found the Write-What-You-Know axiom small and stifling.

I don't know what will come my way but I will continue to tell stories that excite me. I feel human beings are same everywhere, they work from a gamut of emotions the rest is just backdrop.

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only.

I always dreamed I would be a really good bad guy.

You have to search for the best writer - I'm not saying I'm the one, but it's a bad idea to just find the person who is a copycat of Stieg Larsson.

Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.

Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.

Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.