When you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

I don’t get bored.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

It’s good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that’s better than you’d imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn’t be as much fun.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Everything I’ve been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here in reality. Whether it was in a fight and how to react or whether it was in a stadium with screaming fans or whether I was in a fancy car or the best clothes ever, I always put myself somewhere.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

I’d like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of people love to live vicariously through those characters.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

I have trouble imagining what I could do that’s beyond the practicality of what I can do.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

I’ve never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there’s nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there. It’s coming up out of my unconscious, up from places that I don’t even know where they are.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don’t live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Don Quixote’s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

People who work for me know that family comes first. And I’m fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don’t have to live two separate lives.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

When you pick up a book, everyone knows it’s imaginary. You don’t have to pretend it’s not a book. We don’t have to pretend that people don’t write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn’t the only way to do it. Once you’re writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer.

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author’s world.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

When I was making ‚Star Wars,‘ I wasn’t restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, ‚I’m going to create a world that’s fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.‘

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

You reach a point where you don’t work for money.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.