Quotes About Imagination

The premise that we're working with is that when most people go to a show, they're not really watching what's going on onstage. They may be watching what's on the screen. But when the songs are playing in their mind's eye, they're actually watching a movie.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

A lot of my books have started with an abstract premise.

I'm not an outliner. I come up with a premise and then take it from there.

Ultimately, the core premise of 'American Gods' is, 'What do you believe?' And how your beliefs can be manifested into reality.

When I'm breaking in a character like Jessica Jones, I have this amazing opportunity to create her backstory. It's all of the work that happens before I'm ever on camera... Writing 'Bonfire' was like doing all of that fun stuff; it was like 300 pages of prep work.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

I think mental preparation is really important. Every day, you've got to imagine your goal.

My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cannot see that this is such a bad thing.

You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.

I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.

While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.

My work is my passion so it's impossible to imagine doing all the things I love if I couldn't see - riding my bike, reading an autocue or preparing dishes.

My hope is that this life is not all there is. This life is like preparation for what is coming next, and what is coming next is something so glorious that the Bible says minds can't conceive it, eye has never seen, your imagination could never even enter into all that God is preparing for those who love him.

Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.

Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.

Preparing for roles sounds so academic, doesn't it? It feels as if you are preparing for an examination! In a creative medium, the preparation is of an entirely different kind, and for me, the ideas flow from the script itself.

Freedom is the basic prerequisite for writing.

It's the prerogative of the writer to rewrite the world into one he would like to exist.

I probably started painting when I was in preschool.

Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.

A child's sense of reality vs. fantasy can be a bit blurred at the preschool age.