Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.
Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.
Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life.
I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.
I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.
We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.
I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.
I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
