Quotes About Imagination

It's not like I've got 100 ideas. I finish a book, and I've got none.

When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

With screenplays and teleplays, they are mapped, really, in the blueprint of a finished product, which is something you're going to watch on a screen. But a book is an end to itself, really.

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

I want my children to experience as much creativity as possible. That's what sets your mind on fire.

I love movies where the explosions and fireworks are happening inside someone's heart and mind instead of outside.

I am a firm believer that the craziest stories that have been told and are being told are in anime. They have character arcs that go over, like, 400 episodes, like a 400-episode character arc.

I'm a firm believer in reading actual books.

I'm a firm believer that what you don't see is always scarier than what you do.

I am a fairytale person and firmly believe that movies are made to entertain.

Movies were my first love.

Films are my first love.

My first love is literature.

To make films, it always begins with two words: what and how. First of all, you have to find a story, or what are you going to tell? And you have to find a way to tell it visually.

I like to come up first of all with a free idea, thinking about and obviously understanding what is necessary for it to become a car.

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

There's a few things I learned from my experience on 'Hieroglyph.' First of all, I learned that building a world doesn't need to be as expensive as a summer blockbuster. Yeah yeah, newsflash, I know.

If you want people to think out of the box, you shouldn't create the box in the first place.

'E.T.' was the movie that made me want to make movies in the first place, and it was the first movie that made me focus on writing instead of what happens in the movie.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.