Quotes About Imagination

I begin by considering an effect.

I guess it the one consistent thing in my life was that sense of magic that film provide - I still remember the movies from my childhood that I loved.

The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.

I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12.

I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head.

I write constantly about everything.

Because, when I'm making music, I don't think about anything, you know? All I think about is what I want to hear. So that for me is what I want - I want my head to be constantly being rearranged.

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

I try to construct some kind of backstory for my character so that I have an idea of the life of that character - not just from the moment when the scene starts, but from before.

Design is my biggest love. It consumes me!

When you sit down to write a film, you direct it in your head. If you are writing a scene, you are watching the scene. And maybe it's different when you are writing a novel because you are thinking of it in terms of being read. But films are only consumed one way - through the eyes and the ears.

I apprehend light - I make events that shape or contain light.

I work in a very contained environment, usually.

In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety.

My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction.

Content begets content.

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.

I want to continue making things.

What I have to write, the story, it is always going on in my mind. What incidences I can add in the story - it is a continuous process.

Art is a continuum.

I chose to do art in the way I always do it, which is with all the crazy contradictions of life in there.

You just can't control your art in the future.