Quotes About Imagination

It's a very different thing when you're creating the world as opposed to when you're just part of the world. I love the detail of it, the problem-solving of it, and I love working with actors.

I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.

In a world without any criticism at all, although there are many actors who would think they would be delighted to see that happen, would in fact be a far more problematic world than they could ever imagine.

Problems are hidden opportunities, and constraints can actually boost creativity.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene.

A police officer asked me why I agreed to play a Pakistani in my films. I told him that someone has to do different, na. If everyone will become Indian army officer then how the story will proceed?

During isolation, one can bring a different approach to the creative process.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

I think the intuitive processes of discovery are the same, very much the same, in the arts as in the sciences.

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

As we gain more knowledge about materials and processes in the universe, that could open up benefits that we can't even imagine. But you have to be willing to fund science without knowledge of the benefits.

A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.

I design music; I don't produce it.

Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able to offer, then for a fee have them produce in a minute or two a beautiful finished copy in a dust jacket that you would pay for and take home.

I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction.

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.

I want to make stuff. I want to make movies and direct stuff and produce stuff and write stuff.

As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there, you have to produce that yourself.