Quotes About Imagination

I feel that all of us believe that we're rock stars or actors deep down.

I'd love to create my own stuff. I've always written stuff, but it would be nice to have my hand a little deeper in the clay, so to speak.

Comics and animation have some of the deepest stories I've ever seen.

If you look at the body of any writers' work, you can figure out the questions that animate them. I think that is what real writers do. They don't tell people how to live or what to think. They write in order to try to answer their own deepest questions.

Art is freedom. If you defend art, you defend freedom.

If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

'New Mutants' is the absolute definition of a broken down jalopy, and I took it on, and I just remade it... That's why I was so cocky and confident: because I was like, 'I just turned around this broken down comic book with products of my imagination.'

I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books.

The best sort of activity is one that combines mental effort with sensuous delight. That's why I love drawing.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

The mark of a writer is to make a story as likely as possible, and I've done my best to deliver authentic atmosphere.

I saw 'The Shining' really young. I don't think it scarred me, but I had a paper route, and I delivered to some apartment buildings, and it made it a little scary to walk down those hallways.

When I was 15, if anything, I thought I was going to be a Delta bluesman, which is so ridiculous.

As an actor, I always feel you basically have to be able to delude yourself.

I'm so grateful for my endless delusion.

I guess a little bit of delusion can go a long way.

You have to be delusional to be a comedian.

I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it's high, it's good - but it's escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means.

Doctor Who' is the best show to write for, because of the actors and the scale of imagination that it demands.

I don't have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

We don't design by calculator or by demographics or anything like that. We really are a group of creative, sensitive people. We have our charmed little world where we get to make things. We're really lucky.