Quotes About Imagination

My mother was a very big inspiration. She loved fashion. I loved art in school, and I was very good at drawing. I could sit at the table forever and just dream up collections and draw.

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.

I had a recurring dream when I was younger where red foxes would chase me under tables. It was so weird. And I kept having the same dream.

The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.

I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.

That's another thing, we made up games. We didn't have equipment. When it snowed, we would play slow motion tackle football. We would play hockey, but we wouldn't skate. We just made things up. I loved doing that.

It isn't that I don't tackle issues; it's just that they're secondary to giving somebody an escape route from the banal routine of everyday life.

That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters.

I really love to write about food, crafts, and fashion, so those details will always be a part of my books. I think they inject stories with color and flavor, providing a tactile experience.

When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience.

Once you create a believable fictional universe, you suck the audiences into that world and they tag along for the ride.

When you're playing tag in Roblox; or when you're working in a pizza restaurant; or when you're flying as a bird - you're there to have fun and be with your friends and to create things together.

Do I believe in the devil? I don't believe in a figure with horns and a tail.

As a child, during the war, I drew Spitfires and Messerschmitts. With Spot, I found that I had designed a fuselage! His spot is on his side, the roundel marking of an English fighter plane, and the color bar of his tail is the color stripes of a plane's rudder.

I have surreal dreams, so much so that I can never make head nor tail of them.

When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Art must take reality by surprise.

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think.

But if you have a point of view and you're an artist or a writer, it's kind of crazy to not take advantage of that, especially if you can do something that's entertaining as well. I've done a number of things like that over the years.