Reimagination Quotes

The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.

Everything has been done. It's not possible to create something completely new, something that has never been seen before. It's only possible to make new combinations, establish new connections between things we usually take for granted.

One of my favourite Donald Byrd tracks is 'Think Twice,' and I didn't want to sample it. I've always enjoyed when other people have sampled it, so I wanted to instead of making a beat with it or something like that, or freak the beat of whatever. I wanted to just recreate it in my own way, like how I heard it.

We wanted to present the Headless Horseman in a new light. That's where the fun comes in, of just diving in.

But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new -- that's my point.

Children reinvent your world for you.

I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.

You do a good job in something, and that's your box for a minute. It's up to you to keep reimagining that box.

For 82 minutes, 'The Little Mermaid' reclaims the movie house as a dream palace and the big screen as a window into enchantment. Live-action filmmakers, see this and try to top it. Go on and try.

I didn't want to take the DC universe, put it in a box, shake the box and pour it out. I wanted to take the major characters and show what they could be like if they were put on a different path.

Fatherhood didn't just happen to me. I am deliberately living it, re-imagining it, and rediscovering it every day. It is as beautiful as I make it, just like anything else in life.

I would never want to take on a sequel of someone else's stuff unless I was totally reinventing it.