Quotes About Creativity

Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.

Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing . . . out of which you can't make anything.

We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult.

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

There's a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream.

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.

In visual futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality.

Fantasy, at its best, is balm for the soul. But it is faulty logic to assume that balm is necessarily mind-numbing anesthesia.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism.

This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle.

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

Keep away from fantasy. Shake off the image.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

The industrial direction is sometimes too much. We should think more about fantasy.