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.

My imagination is a twisted place.

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

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn’t happen, but other planets.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

It’s a lot of fun to fight.

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.

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

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

You make ‚em, I amuse ‚em.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

I got my buzz from playing.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

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

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

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

I don’t do meetings.

It just seems there’s better things to do in your life than be on television if it’s not interesting, if it’s not challenging, if it’s not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I’ll stop making television.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It’s more fun to come to Paris.

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

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

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

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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.‘

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

I’m a very private person. I don’t go out much. I’m home with kids. I go to work. I don’t really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

‚The Lion‘ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‚Let’s try to make a story about it.‘

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

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.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn’t imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Most of the time I don’t have much fun. The rest of the time I don’t have any fun at all.

SNL is a home. You’ve got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it’s a great time.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.