Quotes About Imagination

I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don't have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later.

I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.

I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost becomes your story.

I have always written. I was one of those kids who would always fill exercise books with girls and telepathic ponies.

When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.

I'm not as clever as J.J. Abrams and those guys who fill it with all of these things for people to find.

The less you know about the person, the more you fill in the rosiest details.

Most actors do that. They fill in the blanks. You don't want to play a cipher.

But I just think we've got such a continuity with what we're doing that most people come in and fill in the blanks. And sometimes we leave a lot of blanks to be filled.

I have about 20 sketchbooks from my childhood filled with drawings, but I'd only have a page here or there where I was trying to figure out how to do comics.

I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.

I think of children's books as not so much for children, but as the filling that goes between the child world and the adult world.

'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done.

I grew up loving film and television. Film, in particular. I would never feel as inspired - it's sort of the same for music with me as well, but I never got the same kind of feeling with music as I did with watching film.

The Indian film industry has a condescending attitude towards its fans without actually intending to. They want to explain everything, leaving very little to the filmgoers' imagination.

Film industry people don't read books.

I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.

I went to film school, and I came in when video art was king, weird stuff was king, and there, you don't have a script as your bible.

Films can make you dream. They allow you to imagine a different world. It's why I decided to become a filmmaker. I wanted that even though it seemed impossible.

Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that - just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

We've all been disappointed by new installments of the stories we love. But with all this talk of filmmakers 'ruining our childhood,' we forget that right now is someone else's childhood. This is their time. And I have to build something that can take them to the same place those earlier films took us.