Quotes About Imagination

I always like to write myself into a corner. I think the best stuff comes from only having a few ways out.

There's always another idea round the corner that I want to do. So while I can, it's important to do them, because there will come a time when I can't.

Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.

As a child, I had always wanted to know what lay at the end of a corridor or behind a door in a picture, so I did a floorplan and elevations of Angelina's house and learned my way around it. The idea was that children should start to feel at home in it.

The No. 1 thing you have that costs nothing is your imagination: role play.

Dreaming costs nothing, no?

Clothes are interesting and they're there to be played with. I like the idea of costume rather than fashion.

We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse.

Comic-Con is really cool. It's different. I like to people-watch. I like to see the costumes.

Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.

When I was little, my mom made all of my costumes.

I started writing books and making clothes for my dolls when I was around 10 as a way of making my reality exciting. When I went out to play with friends, I always arranged elaborate sets and costumes.

My mum was an art teacher, so we used to have fantastic dressing-up costumes when we were little.

Going to the conventions, seeing the incredible amount of love that people put into their clothing, costumes, gadgetry, and art of all kinds, is a huge treat for me.

I always liked dressing up. I think, because I always liked performing, I always liked costumes and things like that.

I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I try to read at least two to three hours a day. I read only fiction.

The artist knows how to sing, not how to count.

I saw a picture of Max Schreck as Count Orlok in a book in my elementary school and I lost my mind.

Having an idea is easy, courting one can be difficult.

I feel like science and art are cousins.

Growing up the way that I did - I grew up with a lot of cousins - you just have this imagination, and I love going and telling different stories. I'm a clown.

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.

I don't have an album cover with me on a broomstick.

Children will go with any story as long as it's good, but white adults sometimes think that if a black child's on the cover, it is perhaps not for them.