I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

To me it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step for example than to see the face of a monster which usually looks ridiculous and where you know that the blood is ketchup.

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant ' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise everything else is a matter of degrees.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary I am the organizer I am the maid and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about imagination?

One travels to run away from routine that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power and look what he did.

For someone who writes fiction in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious it's essential to be free.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality that it makes things happen.

A discerning eye needs only a hint and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth it also stamped me as an enemy in the imagination of the producers.