"I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing."
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"Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work."
"Freedom, to me, is imagination, the power of imagination to create what we want and be who we want to be."
"I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination."
"Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth."
"I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually things get quite formulaic."
"For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination."