Quotes About Imagination

Often what happens with the writing is that you know where you want to start and you know where you want to end, but the journey is never quite what you predict because the characters take on a life on their own.

It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.

As for the future, you can never predict it, so I don't even think about it.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

I prefer to see with closed eyes.

I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

It doesn't bother me to work with so much green screen. I prefer real settings obviously.

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

I like it when you have something happening by coincidence. Just something in a book is enough. But I prefer a fragment of an image so you are far more free to bring in elements of your own.

I never really wanted to be a singer. I always preferred to be behind the camera.

As a kid, I didn't drift into the comic world too much because I preferred to read fantasies novels and science fiction.

I really preferred the characters I could totally create by myself, because I always think of myself as an actor first.

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

I had a terrible dream when I was pregnant; I dreamt the baby had a ventriloquial mouth, but there was no hand hole; I had to flick the mouth down to get words out.

At my pregnant wife's behest, I took the job for the paycheck and the health insurance, and it turned into 'Sharknado.' I couldn't have played this better if I'd wanted to. It's really captured the imagination of sci-fi fans.

Some people say, 'Well you're a man; how do you write about women or girls when you don't know about them?' Well, I've got my imagination, and I can write about women. Yes, I'll never be pregnant and give birth to children, but I can imagine a bit of what it's like. When you create characters, it's just about making them really real to people.

I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history was the birth of artistic imagination. I always loved those cave paintings.

When you first think of making a monster movie you have to realize that a lot of people may be down on you because there is a big prejudice against such films.

We would be the worst of fools if we would ever lose this extraordinary capacity to go beyond the limits of past thought and past prejudices.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.