Imagination Exploration Quotes

I always had this imagination about making colorful movies. I use to walk to school and daydream about it.

When I watch a movie, I want to be taken away into worlds that are beyond my imagination.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

When I journal, I write about images that I've seen that I think might make good stories. I write about things that I hear that I think I can turn into a story. I write about the story that I'm working on and where I think it might go.

Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

True change takes place in the imagination.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

Before we sent kids to computer camps and told them they were having a good time, there was imagination among the human species.

I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories.

I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

When you live in a world of imagination, your imagination doesn't necessarily grow old with you.

Acting is an imaginative exercise. It would be odd if you didn't try to identify with the roles you play, but I think I can differentiate between where my imagination is leading me and where I actually am.

I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.

Only in your imagination can you revise.

Speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world.

Your imagination is your most important tool as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

The longer I look at something, the more my imagination churns and I can find somewhere to put it.

The only thing I would want to say is that storytelling is ancient; it's something that everybody does. Kids mustn't be in awe of it. Reading should be a joy - fun, fun, fun - not a responsibility, not something you do because society demands it, but something you do because it's a pleasure.

Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

Seeing how kids lit up when they were creating things made me think of what would be the ultimate platform for our imagination.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

It's easier for a kid to have fun and have an imagination.

I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as in some other countries.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.