"We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way."
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"I think imagination is a crazy thing, and that's what makes the world go around."
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"I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means."
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"I don't think most books can be justifiably translated on screen. The film versions can't convey the right emotion, fuel your imagination or allow you to visualise every line the way books do."
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"If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think."
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"I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention."
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"I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies, and Loony Tunes cartoons."
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"I'm a big fan of imagination. I think it's the strongest tool we have, and there are some things that you just can't practice."
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"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."
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"Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination."
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"I wouldn't say I have comedy chops. I guess you get lucky with good writing because I don't think I'm a comedian by any stretch of the imagination."
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"I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also."
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"I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman."
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"There's a particular sensitivity required to be an artist, and a certain vulnerability, perhaps, and also, somewhere between, you're in your body a lot, too. It's much more physical than one would imagine because I think it's the body where the imagination lives somehow. I do feel the imagination isn't just in the brain up there."
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"I use so much of myself in everything I do. I think every actor does because you have no one else to go to but yourself and your own imagination."
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"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."
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"People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do."
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"I don't believe my house was haunted. I think I had an overactive imagination, and I was so convinced that those around me became convinced, too."
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"I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror."
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"I think acting is a work of imagination."
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