Herbert Hoover Quotes

My duty is to make probable the improbable. If I tell you how I did it, I will ruin your experience.

What's the main thing that makes magic magic? The fact that no one believes that it's possible.

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And you will believe that it really happened. That's magic, isn't it?

You know when you're a child and your imagination is limitless and you really believe in magic? I thought I had super powers.

… a fairyland to us, for all intents and purposes—a land of enchantment and awful mystery.

I've always said that I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I could make a great movie about him if I set my mind to it.

Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.

If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

Life doesn’t need magic to be magical. (But a little bit sure doesn’t hurt.)

Harry Potter's like Santa Clause: something you can't see but wish was real so badly that you end up believing in it.

Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.

No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.

For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

When I was a little girl, I dreamed of being an elf.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

I never imagined myself in a movie with magic.