Quotes about Imagination

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

I think we're [men and women] more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.

For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.

They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.

If the storm forgets to bring a rainbow, paint your own.

If the sky was the limit, stars would not light our way to the edge of the universe.

I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This is how the world really is. If I could be Evelyn Waugh, then I would be happy.'

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.

I can't really worry about nuclear war any more than I can worry about the aliens coming.