Quotes About Imagination

The things that I'm interested in directing are fiction, because then you're not married to a particular reality.

I love directing as I've got such a fantastic, a creative mind.

And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.

My work is not directly about the social or political.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.

I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

When I was little, I asked my mom to move us to Los Angeles and get me an agent. She would say, 'Stop it. Go play in the dirt.'

Just taking a piece of dirt and envisioning the building you'd like to put on it - it's an amazing process.

I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'

When I was given a tricycle, aged eight, I'd disappear for hours and do my own thing.

I'm the kid who wanted to grow up and be Bugs Bunny. I was very, very disappointed when I realized I couldn't grow up and be a cartoon character.

It's the writer's job to disarm the reader of his logic, to just make the reader feel.

I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.

The baseline character in a lot of Western literature is a man. So we, as women, do a lot of suspending of our disbelief to experience a novel or a play or a movie through that male character.

I write linearly without knowing the full story. I discover it as I write it.

We should all miss bookstores. They let you discover things.

I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a totally different world.

I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.

One day, I discovered that a couple of people had written 'fanfic' - stories of their own based on my characters. Just the thought of people thinking that hard and deeply about something I've written is incredible.

While I was in high school, I discovered and began writing science fiction.

I like my mind being stimulated. I like discovering new concepts.