Quotes About Imagination

Some of my most enjoyable moments as a writer have come while conjuring a meet cute.

As a kid I used to always write these stories... some of them were really cute; some of them were kind of crazy.

When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.

I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

I wanted to go beyond the sentiments and needs of daily life to create a sense of wonder and find a new space for design.

I'd like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.

Sometimes, when I look at Bollywood, I think, Damn, this is dream stuff.'

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing 'Legend of Zelda' at the time, and it was addicting, and I was playing it for hours and hours and hours.

I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.

Acting, music, comedy are all just delivery systems to communicate ideas and stories.

You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, 'I did that.'

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

When I'm sitting at my drafting table in my studio, I could really be anywhere.

Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming.

Before I even started to school, I sometimes would hide behind the radio, which would be sitting on a table, and pretend that I was on the air and try to fool people who came by to listen.

As an object itself, to me, books today are such a rare entity - I want mine to be something where, if left on the kitchen table, a child could pick it up. It can visually tell a story.

When you're creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow.

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school.

I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.

When I was younger - I don't do this too much now - but sometimes if I couldn't sleep, I would lie in bed and imagine all the characters I've played at a dinner table together.