Quotes About Imagination

Our culture loves movies and TV, which is wonderful, but there's something a little bit passive sometimes about watching, because you're looking at other people's imagination at work.

No one really has any idea about me. To me, what I give you is what happens onscreen, and past that, anything you're coming up with in your own head, you're creating in your own mind.

I think I was probably a cowboy in a past life.

My favorite pastime is to write.

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?

I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can be a writer.

Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.

Each song takes a different path through a different headspace.

The fun thing about writing a book with multiple paths and multiple endings is you really get to explore the characters and figure out their different fates.

The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

I don't have the patience to be a non-creator.

Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.

So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.

Sometimes I see patterns in my mind. I dream about them at night. They drive me crazy.

Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.

An enormous amount of ingenuity and creativity goes into commercials, and they can be fascinating if you pay attention.

When you are 'world building,' people will oftentimes judge how well you built your world. They want to know: Is the culture believable? Does it feel like it has a history? I try very hard to pay attention to details.

I have always felt that effect covers are very good covers. They bring you into the story if you pay attention to them.

When I approached my own movies, I went in it real innocent. I didn't pay attention to nobody else's score. I was just going to do it with how I feel it should sound. To me, that's how you create new things.

When nobody is paying attention, anything is possible.

I get my inspiration from looking at the world and paying attention to people and just looking closely. Also from reading. I get so much inspiration from other authors.

It's a brilliant job. I'm literally paying my mortgage by fighting imaginary dragons.

It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.