Imagination Constraint Quotes

Any platform that you use to tell stories helps you regardless of the medium regardless if they are bedtime stories that you tell your children or comics or film. Specifically what makes comics unique is that they are a storytelling device that forces you to think both visually and economically. Some might say you are limited by your imagination, but that is not true because someone has to draw it.

I don't pretend that I can imagine myself as a Palestinian.

I would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit.

How sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things that are not.

I'll write a character with a certain actor in mind, but then once I start casting, I have to forget about who I pictured.

If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based on empirical knowledge. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications.

I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.

I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually... things get quite formulaic.

Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

With all the movies I've made about history, it's not really fun because you're trying to get it right. You've got history telling how it was, and then my imagination is telling me how I wish it had been, but I can't go there, so I have to censor myself. I'm very good about stopping myself from creating history that never occurred, but it's frustrating.

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.