Margaret Weis Quotes

I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.

In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork, less of a need to fill in all of the background. For science fiction, I would use a lot of sources to set up, for instance, what a being from another planet would be like.

I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story.

Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them.

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.

Filmmaking is so heavy: there are so many people and trucks and teamsters and costume people and hair people and makeup people. I try to make it light and as simple as possible. It's great for actors. It puts the story up front. It's not about shots and dollies and lighting and sets.

It's always an amazing gift to be able to work with storytellers who 'get it' and who can not only draw anything but can draw it better and more dynamically than you'd ever envisioned.

I'm just making 'Threadworlds' out of the things I love and that I'm passionate about learning. When we created 'Avatar,' Michael DiMartino and I did the same thing.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

I loved fantasy role play.

I love using my imagination. I love writing about animals.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point.