Quotes About Imagination

My whole life, I always wanted to be a Disney Channel kid.

I watch a lot of Disney.

We live and breathe Disney in our house.

I used to take my little Disney figurines and turn them into stop-motion animation.

Obviously, I'm a fan of Disney and much of what they put out.

At Disneyland, you never go 'backstage' - even when you're in the bathroom.

Disneyland is a show.

I kind of feel like I grew up at Disneyland.

What Disneyland was to my kids at age 10, that's kind of what Chicago is for economists.

If you are writing something, you automatically create a certain distance. It can be very little. Even within the same city you imaginatively have a certain distance from your subject, and at the same time, you have to have a connection.

I need a distance to my characters when I write.

With Magic Leap, your brain doesn't distinguish what's real and what's Magic Leap. Because as far as your brain's concerned, it is real.

I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.

Read more. Read every time you go to bed; read in the day - because at least, reading a book, you can't be distracted by anything else.

I have this thing in the back of my brain that dares me to think of the most disturbing thing.

When I was a kid, I used to be afraid of the dark. I would stand at my door, turn the light off and dive into bed.

What I feel is that true creation happens when you're making something out of nothing - like it's divine, you know. Creation is a completely divine concept.

I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.

I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.

I think that sense of wonderment, where you walk out expecting the ordinary and are confronted by the extraordinary, is something that has always interested me, whether in TV or comic books.

The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.

The more screenwriting you do, the more you become aware that particular scenes aren't going to end up in the movie because they're too expensive. That has perhaps changed the way I think about writing novels, actually, because now I write expensive scenes whenever I can.

I'm a big believer in sort of sense memory, like using something that you've experienced in order to put yourself in the position that the character is in.

I think every writer will tell you that their characters are always partially themselves: who I am and what I've experienced. It's always there in part of my characters.