Quotes About Imagination

In a time of destruction, create something.

I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be.

Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

The muse doesn't come without being called.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

I don't think I've ever prayed in my entire life, never sat and had an imaginary chat with God.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

I must have been a koala in my past life.

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.