Quotes About Imagination

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

I always have a big idea. It pops up every two to three years.

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

I like to create whatever that pops up in my head, bring whatever idea to life.

America is, in many ways, as much an idea as it is a country. And Americans have long marketed that idea around the world through our popular culture.

There is a very large chunk of our population who firmly believe in extraterrestrials.

I'm a big believer that sci-fi lives in literature, that the true sci-fi population is out there reading a gazillion authors.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.

I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.

I do not think I will ever write screenplays based on my books. I would not know what to cut out and what portions to keep. I like all the characters I have created. I cannot imagine chopping them off.

In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.

In the beginning, I started doing portraits of children, and of course, children have large eyes. For some reason, they just started getting bigger and bigger. Then, when I started painting imaginary children rather than real ones, they became bigger still.

The characters I portray are an extension of what I've seen, heard, or read, and so what you see in my films are how I understand life.

I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our world, which I find a really exciting thought.

I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.

So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.

I am fine playing 'Law & Order' and even the 'Jurassic' movies to be straight up, as far as the characters being portrayed there, but I never want to stay in straight-up land too long. I always wanted to do something where the character's world gets to be explored.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

The best books I read as a child were set in far-flung places, but also portrayed characters experiencing a life far removed from my own.

When you're portraying someone that really existed, there has to be a time as an actress where you leave reality and move into the fantasy world so you can do your job of creating a character.

When you're portraying someone, whether they're real or fictional, you have to find some kind of hook where it feels real to you because if you don't believe it yourself, then no one else is going to believe it.

The movies I make, I never see them as accurately portraying a life, but more like fables.

I like to dream about Portugal, and it's less easy when you are there.