Quotes About Imagination

I create a world where kids rule. If you think about it, kids are always being told what to do, what to say, when to do it - they're very controlled... I give them an escape, where the kids are in charge.

I don't control my writing - it controls me.

What's interesting is, for myself, when I become really attracted to somebody, I find them in my dreams... conversations, nothing more.

Overhearing people's conversations about art - that's always entertaining.

My biggest source of inspiration is listening to people's conversations. I'm a big eavesdropper.

I think 'Doctor Who' is the greatest idea television has ever had, and our job is to convince the rest of the world.

I dream up things, and then I convince myself that they're possible.

The very fact that you thought of it means that, somewhere in your mind, it's believable to you. All you have to do is convince your audience that it's possible.

Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!

I just love to look at cookbooks, it's almost like they're comic books for me. I can't look at them before bed; it gets me too excited.

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.

The really cool thing about when you're playing a comic book character is that no one knows what he sounds like.

The cool thing about being in drag, just like getting to play a role in a play, is that you get to play a fantasy and you get to play someone else that you're not used to.

Music is such a big landscape. There's so much we can do with it. It's endless. That's what the cool thing about it is.

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV.

As a kid, I always thought of being a cop or an army man.

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

Every time I hear about a new show, and I see a show that is being created that is nothing like I've ever thought about, I just get so excited about that expansion. Because I started working when 'L.A. Law' was on. It was lawyers and cops.

At the end of the day, you can't do a copy of somebody.

If your entire conception of what's possible in fantasy only comes from other fantasy books, you're going to go on to create a copy of a copy of a copy. There's nothing original there, nothing dynamic. Which is fine if that's your goal, but I've always wanted to do something no one else was doing before.

I don't really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story is. And I think the characters end up talking to you and telling you what they want to be doing and what is important to them. So in some ways, your job is to listen as much as it is to write.

The spookiest thing for me is when I think I see something, and then nothing is there. I always imagine I see something, or I'll catch movement out of the corner of my eye, but nothing is really there.

For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.