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. – Idris Elba
Isn’t it crazy to think that we’ve explored space more than we have explored the depths of our ocean? That just fires up my imagination about potential sea monsters and cool creatures, that kind of stuff. – James Wan
No, no, I don’t watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what’s going on in their brains. It’s like torture to me. – Bennet Omalu
Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way. – Ian Watson
I think most of the time you can make something happen, and it’s about not letting your imagination be limited by that. – Jane Goldman
The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings. – Claudia Rankine
I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there. – Beverly Cleary
‘A Princess of Mars’ may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated. – Junot Diaz
I tend to be really spacey, but I don’t think it’s because I’m unintelligent – it’s just my imagination and a little bit of ADD. – Jenny Slate
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. – Alan Watts
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. – Andrew Wyeth
I always felt that what is scary is actually hearing someone tell you what they think they see. That sense of invisibility makes things a lot scarier, since your imagination tends to fill in the gaps. – James Wan
You think in a different way when you don’t have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff. – Amy Sedaris
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. – Isaac Newton
Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they’re casting, they’re dressing the scene, they’re working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they’re also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader. – John le Carre
Everything is creative. It’s all relative to me. No matter what, you’ve gotta use your imagination, use your senses. – Action Bronson
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? – Cesare Pavese
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers? – James Thomson
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. – Carl Jung
On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn’t observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer. – Bobby Seale
Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves. – James Nesbitt
I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you’d get your supplies, and then you’d use your imagination. – Amy Sedaris
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. – Brit Marling
Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet. – John Updike