Quotes About Imagination

I like having an idea, or hearing an idea, and getting it into a proper script.

I guess that if I was a normal cartoonist who did things properly, I'd think up the background information first and then come up with the story. Saying that, you'd think that I don't really think through anything.

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

Acting gives me the opportunity to be fascinating on stage or, I suppose; properly speaking, pretend to be fascinating.

Above all else, 'Doctor Who' still seems to me to offer near-infinite scope for the writer. It must be the least constraining of televisual properties.

Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.

Picking apart a story for its scientific underpinnings doesn't diminish it, it enhances it, makes us dream of the possibilities it proposes. I think appreciating the magic of reality, going from 'can't happen' to 'could happen,' is the fundamental appeal of science fiction.

And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

I was a dramatic kid. I remember, I was very young, and once I knew what I wanted to do I, like, created a theater company, and I would direct, and we would sell lemonade to buy props.

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

I have a certain amount of creative energy, and it used to go painting. Now most of it goes to music. I like to make things. I treat the songs more like poems than prose, so in that sense, I don't really have a point to make. I just try to be surprised.

I generally don't think of prospective actors when I write.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

If we can provide even a fictional roadmap to what a successful, prosperous African nation might look like, then let's do that.

I wanted to be a prosthetic makeup artist after watching 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'.

When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.

It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.

When I was writing my first novel, 'Elizabeth is Missing,' I was writing the only novel I had ever written and writing about the only protagonist I'd ever written about. Because of this, I didn't think of her as a construct. Maud was real.

When my daughter was born, I was reading a lot of children's books, and there weren't any characters who looked like her. For all the content that's out there, there aren't many African-American protagonists. I looked at it like, if there isn't someone else creating it then I have to do it myself.

There aren't many children's books about black characters that are just going on adventures. My library has over 2,000 children's books in it, and most of the protagonists are either white or creatures.

What happens with a good score is, somehow the composer manages to cast himself or herself in the role of the protagonist. And then you write from their perspective.