Imagination Quotes

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

Toby Jones

I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet...

Tatiana Maslany

The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

Terence McKenna

With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.

Terrence McNally

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

Trevor Nunn

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

Terry Pratchett

The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'Yo...

Tom Robbins

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

Tom Robbins

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

Tony Robbins

My imagination is a twisted place.

Taylor Swift

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

Thomas Sowell

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

Timothy Spall

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

Terry Wogan

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Tom Waits

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Tom Waits

I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

Uzo Aduba

I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

Uzo Aduba

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Vincent Van Gogh

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

Vanessa Hudgens

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Vernon Howard