Quotes About Imagination

When I was younger, my goal in life was to work in special FX makeup. Liquid latex and fake blood! That was the dream!

There's not a lot of good content to write about when you're 13 years old, so you just have to kind of fake it.

You can fake a lot of stuff, but you can't fake if the story isn't there and if the writing isn't good.

I really like 'Community.' I like the way they're allowed to have a week when they go crazy and use stop-frame animation or a different pastiche. There's an episode with a fake clip show.

I often have trouble falling asleep at night, so when I'm lying in bed I think up stories. That's where I do a lot of my thinking. I also get a lot of ideas while I'm reading - sometimes reading someone else's stories will make me think of one of my own.

I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.

Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with.

Growing up with music as a kid - I used to feel like artists were writing songs about me falling in love.

Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life.

Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind.

Creativity is not about the fame.

I've never played Dungeons & Dragons, but I'm actually pretty familiar with it.

I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with.

I love finding ways to make familiar characters into someone unique.

I've been familiar with western fantasy novels since I was a boy.

To imagine a better life for yourself and your family and to leave behind all that is familiar requires a special kind of courage.

How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

Most films I write are based on what I have seen growing up, and I could write 'Ulidavaru Kandanthe' because of that familiarity.

When you have a script, and you're discussing what it can be, and who going to play what role, that's a kind of like a fantasy football game. You can imagine these different dream teams interpreting these characters that only exist in your head.

I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember my mum taking me to the first Tarzan film, which starred Johnny Weissmuller, and bursting into tears. It wasn't what I had imagined at all.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

At 5 years old, I saw 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,' and I was so scared when Costello sat himself down in the lap of the monster, not realizing where he was. My friends teased me. They were older, 8 years old. And my goal was to become a mad scientist and get back at them. And here I am, mad as hell!

Lego for many parents is the antithesis of the high tech world. We are desperate to wean our little ones away from the tablets and into the bricks.

My explorations of the technical world started with Legos, with which I was quite creative in constructing moving objects with the basic building blocks that were then available.