I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.
It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.
One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.
Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.
As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.
Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.
Between 'Avengers,' 'JLA/Avengers,' and 'Trinity,' I've gotten down and dirty in the big universes and had a hell of a time playing in those sandboxes.
'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.
I've seen so many screw-ups of representations of South Africa, and it makes me so angry every time.
Some of the smallest things on a smaller film, to me, are greater achievements than on a big film when you have the resources and the time and everything else.
When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.
I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.
An astrolabe is relatively unknown in today's world. But, at the time, in the 13th century, it was the gadget of the day. It was the world's first popular computer. And it was a device that, in fact, is a model of the sky.
I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
Frances Stevens: You want a leg or a breast? John Robie: You make the choice.