I’m not a massive artist by any stretch of the imagination. Yes, I’ve been in papers and magazines, but you never have any idea if anyone actually reads it or pays any attention.
‘Avatar’ is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it’s put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.
The most important innovators often don’t need any technologies – just imagination and acute sensitivity to people’s needs.
I started writing because I found I could spend more time in my own imagination by doing that than I could by reading.
Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn’t think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.
I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I’ve always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history was the birth of artistic imagination. I always loved those cave paintings.
I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don’t let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
Zuri is slowly starting to become more of who I am in real life. Starting on ‘Jessie,’ she had a huge imagination, and had her imaginary friends, but now that she’s 13 she has definitely passed that stage in her life and has grown so much.
In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology.
I tend to like to read history – recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer’s imagination.
Love and the imagination are connected.
If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude… I hope to make you use your imagination.
A few things make a person stylish: honesty, imagination with a sprinkling of humour. I still keep an eye on trends, but I don’t follow them any more.
Obviously, as an actor, you have to embrace your imagination all the time, but when you’re doing one of these films, you have to embrace your most childlike imagination – a sense of wonder and uninhibited playfulness.
I’ve always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.
Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang’s feeble imagination.
Once you’ve got a child to the point that they’ve discovered books, they’re safe. There’s a world of the imagination that when they’re hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.
Being on the left is supposed to be about unbounded optimism, a belief that what is deemed politically impossible by the ‘sensible grownups’ of politics can be realised, with sufficient imagination and determination.
I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.
I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you.
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
I really don’t know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I’ve just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven’t had a hugely eventful life – maybe I’m compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I’m just a bit sick.
Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind… This is where the novelist’s creative imagination has to take over.
