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.
The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide.
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.
Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
'Dark Shadows' was the spark that lit the fire of my childhood imagination. It wasn't polished; it wasn't perfect. But it gave us characters with real personalities and complicated motivations.
I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.
If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination.
Sadly, semi-consciousness, along with daydreaming, is a capacity that is actively discouraged among children in schools, and our society is much poorer and harsher as a consequence. The value of liminal space and transitional imagination remain personally and culturally undeveloped.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
I would describe myself as having a healthy income, but I sure wouldn't describe the son of a postmaster and an encyclopedia saleswoman as upper class, by any stretch of the imagination. I would describe myself as decidedly middle class. I think I'm extremely fortunate.
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
I had never been a comic book person before, really, because I had no access to them. Once I had access, I thought that these are just another avenue for telling stories and delving into the imagination.
I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.
