Quotes About Imagination

I was really not into school. Everything was distracting to me. I would have a beat in my head or a song. I was always not paying attention, just daydreaming.

When anybody pays you to be creative, you're very lucky.

That was always our favorite type of story, and that's the stuff we fell in love with. The peak of those type of ordinary-meets-extraordinary stories was in the '80s.

Honestly, I grew up a huge Peanuts fan.

'Peanuts' is a life-long influence, going back to before I could even read.

I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!

Having to think so much about fictitious relationships that work or don't work, and with each relationship between characters managing to do one or other of those in its own peculiar way, I spend a lot of time thinking about relationships, real and imagined.

Whatever happens to science in schools, there's something peculiar going on if students don't see it as creative.

When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting.

I loved the idea of a book of fairytales meant especially for peculiar children, and I love even more the idea of making that fictional book real.

When I close my eyes and think of a writer, I don't imagine him or her as someone who is sitting above me on a pedestal, blindfolded, holding the scales of justice in one hand! No, I see sentences.

During a fight with Anderson Silva, I slipped on an imaginary banana peel.

A lot of my peers don't think about collaborating the way I do. My approach is to imagine my world. The Jason Wu woman isn't just floating around in a beautiful dress. I like to know where she's going, what she likes. I'm not just in the fashion business. I'm in the lifestyle business.

When you're from a boring town, you have to find things to do. It's funny: I always knew I wanted to make music, so I was always kind of ahead of my peers. I had an MP3 player by the time I was in the fourth grade.

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.

I was writing fantasy as soon as I could hold a pen.

I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.

I always have pen and paper with me.

One exercise I always do when I'm getting to know a character is ask her to tell me her secrets. Sit down with a pen and paper, and start with, 'I never told anybody...' and go from there, writing in the voice of your character.

Why would you not have a robot that looks like Abraham Lincoln? Why would it look like an erector set? Why use a computer with a punchcard, when you could use one with a touch pen on the screen? Why a car, when you could use a jetpack?

It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen and paper. We do it with our bodies.

As a filmmaker, if you want to write a script, all you need is some paper and a pen or a computer, that's it.