I’ve got quite a vivid imagination and I’m easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a ghost – I think I’m probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.
The outlaw, in the American imagination, is a subject of romance – a ‘good’ bad man, he is typically a master of escape, a crack shot, a ladies’ man.
When you are doing a film about real people, you don’t have a lot of manoeuvrability when it comes to how much you can add by way of imagination. You have to replicate what they were like. What you can add to it is your version of it.
The idea of the NHS took root in the political imagination less as an example of social entitlement’s victory over private provision, and more as the embodiment of brand Britain.
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Sometimes when you’ve got too much money you lose your imagination.
There’s the argument that you can relate to someone who’s completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.
Thank God for my imagination. For my abilities to mimic.
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you’ve got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces.
My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.
I suppose I’m proudest of my novels for what’s imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.
I want everyone to put their views forward, every union branch, every party branch, so we develop organically the strengths we all have, the imagination we all have.
‘The Fades’ is its own world. If you try and link it to some religion, you have people going, ‘Oh, that’s not right,’ with their Bible open. Let’s just chuck some imagination at it.
The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination – everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.
Ideas seem to come from everywhere – my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.
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.
The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.
I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
We say God and the imagination are one… How high that highest candle lights the dark.
Usually I say I have no imagination.
My imagination is a twisted place.
