Quotes About Creativity

I draw on my memories but blended with a lot of fantasy.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.

Fantasy appeals to me and can be very much reflected in my dress - but then, each day is different. Not every day is a magical day.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

Ive never seen myself as a fantasy writer-ever.

Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.

Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.

Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.

Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can't afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.

I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical ideas.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively.

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

Most fantasy is incredibly derivative of Tolkien, so when you read a lot of fantasy, it's really just elves and gnomes, and it all goes back to Tolkien.