Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.
I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make up your mind, Mr. Writer, and for once in your life be the flower that smells rather than the chronicler of the aroma. There's not much pleasure in writing what you live. The challenge is to live what you write.
With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.
To put it simply, I'm not interested in making comfortable films, and I don't want to crush the audience's imagination. I want them to feel like they might have missed something.
I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.
I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine.
At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.
I think if you can show a kid that reading can actually be fun, it can make you laugh, inspire imagination - that can make a huge difference, that can help a child who's struggling with reading to really look at it differently.
I stay in contact with kids, and that is a lot of fun for me, not only to get their letters but to meet them in schools and see that the books really have engaged their hearts and imaginations. That's what makes it so worthwhile.
A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.
The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.
