Quotes About Imagination

Like a lot of people my age, I grew up on Amblin movies. They're a part of who I am as a filmmaker and, arguably, as a person.

Film is something I've always loved since I was very young. In fact, I actually wanted to study to be a filmmaker when I was younger.

Every filmmaker has his own vision, and when they write a film or characters, they see certain people in those characters.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: 'I'm gonna make that movie.'

A big part of my filmmaking is that I can go somewhere new and, visually, be excited by it.

I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.

I would definitely, definitely love to do more comic work. I think, creatively, there's something that's differently rewarding about it than the rewards of filmmaking.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is all about telling stories, and I'm just doing my part.

I made short films in school.

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

I've always been a fine artist.

Fine art is really something I want to get into.

In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry, it can be an album cover or a t-shirt or a logo.

Books are a finer world within the world.

When I was growing up as a child, a magazine, to me, was like a finger beckoning me to the future.

The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small so I didn't draw fingers, nose, ears, etc and this drawing had a certain appeal that I really liked.

It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.

Sometimes I feel like I finish a song, and there's another song that I have to write in response to that song. Each is like its own separate feeling, its own separate universe.

I know very few people who have literally improvised a film from start to finish.

Whenever I finish a movie, I usually go through a period where I think I'll never have another idea. And then, somehow, you get another idea.