Quotes About Imagination

For millennia, human beings have been finding new ways to look at the world through each others' eyes: from projecting ourselves onto the characters in novels or movies to dressing up in costume to devouring the details of some celebrity's life in 'Hello' or 'OK.'

Sometimes, a writer 'character' is just a projection of a person who is writing the story, but not necessarily 'me.'

I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film and not really know what to expect. If you read the script first, you form all kinds of preconceptions about how things look, what the location's like, what the actors are like.

A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults because we can't remember what childhood was like.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

I don't think in terms of projects.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.

I spend a lot of time thinking, if not daydreaming. People think of me as a genre writer, and a genre writer is supposed to be prolific. Since that's how people perceive me, they have to say I'm prolific. But I don't find that either complimentary or accurate.

Bayern has always played a prominent role in my dreams.

Mine is a European imagination, shaped largely by my very promiscuous reading in German, French, English and, with greater difficulty, Italian.

Every work of art is a great promise of escape and, therefore, like an open invitation.

I made a promise to be as creative as I could, even outside of music.

I'm not promising to write 'JFK 2' - but one day, I might!

I never knew how much you had to do to promote a movie, and I can't imagine what it would be like if you didn't like the movie you were promoting.

I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects.

Every time that I'm in the dark, I imagine what might be lurking in the shadows. It's kind of like a drug in that way - darkness seems to change the way I think - making me way more prone to fear.

I think all human beings have a propensity to believe in things, and to have hope, and I think as a child especially you have a lot of hope and you believe in a lot of things, and your bedroom is a safe space and an imaginative space where you can escape and go off into wherever you want.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? - By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for.

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.

There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.

I don't actually do anything special to get in the proper frame of mind for creepy/heinous scenes.

We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true. Yet for some, historical fiction is a way into reading history proper.