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Film recognizes neither time nor space, only the limits of man's imagination
Sep 10, 2025
I do not hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them gleich alles zusammen - at the same time all together.
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.
I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.
You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.
Visualize what you want to do before you do it. Visualization is so powerful that when you know what you want, you will get it.
Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.
Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want.
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Few people have the imagination for reality.
fantasizing is one of the earliest languages in the child's mind. We are in touch with our imagination and dreams before we engage with logic and reason.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination
The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
I'm asked all the time, "Doesn't it feel great to finish the novel?" And the answer to that is, "No." It's sort of a loss to stop a 10-year project, which is an imaginary project in the sense that it's a work of my imagination. The people who I've lived with for 10 years in my imagination are now sort of defunct. To lose them is rather a mournful process - it's not a relief.
Our reading can affect our imaginations in ways of which we are not consciously aware. It is quite common...to re-read something after a gap of many years and realize that it has been there all along, without any memory of where it was first encountered. But it may have been working away all the time.
Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.
When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn't interest me.
Well, there's a great Marlon Brando quote that to do something well you have to spiritually marry your director. You have to be making the same movie they are in that you have to try to help their imagination be better, and more full, and more fully realized, but you can't have a different imagination because then you end up - and you see this a lot in movies - where it feels like they were making five different films.
Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Your body, which is very physical, is under the influence of your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, your dreams, your fantasies, your desires, your instincts, your drives, your imagination. All these things orchestrate themselves - all these internal activities that are in the invisible domain that we call consciousness actually have very precise physical effects both in our biology, but they also influence our perception of the world.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Everything you can imagine is real.
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Art is the sex of the imagination.
Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued.
India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.
It was a really strange experience. It was very creative for Alejandro Amenábar. It was almost like it was the most I ever felt like I was helping someone paint. They had a very clear idea of what they wanted it to look like, sound like, be like. So, there was no operating outside the box. The only way to help him was to try to really be a part of his imagination and try to make it happen. He's a super kind and loving person. So, you wanted to help him. It just was none of my normal ways of helping a director work at all. So, it was a unique experience for me that way.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
History is the same thing over and over again.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.