“For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.”
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“Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.”
“One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.”
“I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?”
“I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.”
“To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.”
“Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.”
“Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.”
“To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.”
“I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.”
“'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.”
“I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.”
“Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.”
“There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.”
“The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.”
“I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.”
“My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.”
“Politics is the enemy of the imagination.”
“True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.”
“What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.”
“I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.”
“I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth and then I can fly free.”
“My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.”
“I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.”