Imagination vs. Reality Quotes

There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

I've made movies that were adaptations and I've been kind of frustrated by the process because, you know that old axiom, 'It's never as good as the book'? It's often true because nothing competes with your own imagination. When you're reading a book and you imagine something in your head, nothing's going to compete with that.

Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man.

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.

...dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.

It's tricky turning a book into a movie. Sometimes people love the book so much that no adaptation lives up to what they imagined. You can avoid that disappointment by never, ever reading books.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?

There comes a moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful!

I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

Not real can tell us about real.

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.

Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.

When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.

I never wanted to do Harry Potter. I thought it should have stayed as a book. There are some books that should be made into movies and some that shouldn't. Harry Potter is 70% imagination. When the movie comes out, it's going to be such a stereotype for kids. When they think of Harry Potter, they're going to think of what is portrayed on screen.

She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.

Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

It's amazing when you see something on T.V. for years and then you go and see it in person. It's perspective is all different.