Imagination quotes

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Love is based on imagination.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing.

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth and then I can fly free.

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

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

I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

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.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.