Quotes About Imagination

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.

I had always attended classes and written stories as a creative outlet because I need that, and I thought, in my previous career in a model, the way I approached that was that I believed I was telling a non-verbal story.

Once I started writing the screenplay of 'Bride & Prejudice,' I was convinced Jane Austen was a Punjabi in her previous birth.

While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.

At school I was a disaster, but when I would design, I could feel a sense of pride. I've always designed, and I would literally design everything I'd see: cars, bikes, motorcycles - everything.

Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can't read 'Pride and Prejudice' anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.

I thought every other kid was like me. I'd watch films and act them out on my own and wish I could be one of the actresses. When I saw 'Pride And Prejudice,' the one with Colin Firth, I just absolutely knew that was what I wanted to do, and for 'Cranford' to be my first job was poetic, really.

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy.

The expressive body is not literal; it's very primal, and that's what I feel when I make the best of my work. It's coming from a primal place rather than an intellectual place.

The reasons why images are so primal and people immediately relate to it is that we are exquisitely engineered to interpret information that is arrayed in two dimensions. That's our eyesight. That's how our eye-brain system works. So it immediately feels to us when we look at an image like we have extended our senses.

I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'

Be it any industry, what matters to me is the story as that is what the audience are primarily in a theatre for - to enjoy a good story.

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

I have memories of reading comics when I was in primary school, but that's about it.

In the second half of primary school, I liked live-action shows and giant-monster movies, and then in junior high, I got into regular movies.

Clearly, when I first started talking about the fact that I wanted to be an astronaut, I was in primary school, so people understand that we want to be all kinds of things then. It's not a big deal.

Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of the human being in the world and imagination, all coming together.

I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do.

Our effects were primitive. Our stars were a black cloth with holes in it and light behind.

As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.

I'm not a happy-ending person. I want to know what happens once Cinderella rides off with Prince Charming.

Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally.