Quotes About Imagination

One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.

By the nature of cinema and how it literalizes what we envision, movies can have difficulty replicating that connection we make with a classic book.

I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.

There's no set rule, but when you look at the script, you start thinking about this person and how to create this human being on screen. You dig deeper into a script.

I used to write books and plays in my mind, but I doubt that any of them would have been above the level of the cheapest dime novel.

So you see, movies are really another dimension.

I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s.

Why wouldn't you be afraid of a Komodo dragon? It's a dragon. It's a dinosaur.

I grew up playing with dinosaurs instead of Barbie dolls.

I've always loved dinosaurs.

If I can build a coalition of people who are interested in what I have to say and what I'm thinking, I hope they'll come with me if I want to go tell a story that doesn't have dinosaurs in it - which I plan to do.

I loved dinosaurs, I loved space, and I thought maybe I'd be the first paleo-astronaut.

One of my kids keeps on saying that he wants to be a paleontologist, but first he wants to make a time machine, so he can go back and save the dinosaurs.

Kids go through a stage where they love dinosaurs - boy or girl.

That's the whole thing about fashion: it's fantasy. To dip into that at 18 and 19 was amazing.

You cant be an artist without going to art school. Its impossible. Art schools like being plunged into a sheep dip that inoculates you against cliches. It gives you a sensibility you need to get into the art world.

Without imagination and without love, life can be pretty bleak. I think having both will get you through the most dire of situations.

My characters are based on people I know, but not in a direct way.

I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.

I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

For me, directing a film is like confining myself. I want to do something beyond direction. I can conceive stories, write screenplays, etc. That's better for me.

I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.