Quotes About Imagination

Of course you bank on your experience, but as a sounding board. It isn't that you write down what happens to you every day. You wouldn't be a writer if you did that.

Make a list of activities that keep you tethered to your creative world, and put it where you can see it every day - like, right in the center of your image board.

I read Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat' when I was 11.

As a child, I always wanted to live on a boat.

I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.

I wrote 'Pumpkins' with Bobby Moynihan and Streeter Seidell.

I'm very much an easy person, and I love to work with people who have bold eccentric vision.

I got rid of Warlock's lightning bolt because... it was a real pain to draw.

Bond is fantasy.

Maybe I'll get into a Bond film... I always thought I'd be a Bond Girl when I was young.

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

Any given day, you'll find me at secondhand bookstores.

In 'Boomerang,' they didn't have a script at all, they just told me to come up with some stuff.

I have to think about the future because, not that I'm bored with it now, but I can't live now, it's not my place to live now. I've got to live ahead of myself.

I've always enjoyed making up stories, especially when I was bored and just sitting around. It got really serious after the children came along.

If I've got a script, you think I'll go to Hollywood to get money? I was bored with the people around me, so I just created my own movie, my own character. I'm the story of my own movie, and you know what? My movie is going to be better.

When you're bored, you get creative.

I've tried to tell my kids: If you're reading something engrossing, you'll never, ever be bored.

I write when I get bored, when I have nothing to do.

I remember feeling incredibly bored all the time, and I spent a lot of my time dreaming about what was going on in London, and fantasising about being there.

I literally have a song about how bored I was and it's actually a really cool song that's interesting because I created something out of nothing.

When I was a kid, I used to spend a lot of time at home because of the war. We couldn't go out and play or go to school. Boredom was a big part of my life.

I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.

I think the whole reason I act is because it's much more fun to be somebody else. I'm pretty boring.