Ben Lewin Quotes

I loved the world of imagination.

In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

It's good to have fantasies and creative fantasies, especially.

I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about.

To stay sane, I lived in my head, where I could travel and imagine. In my mind, I played a championship game with the Knicks. I won Wimbledon five times. If the Yankees needed a home run, I came to bat.

We all live best in our imaginations.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

Daydream, imagine, and reflect. It’s the source of infinite creativity.

I love using my imagination. I love writing about animals.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it lives in you.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story, and that was the birth of filmmaking for me. I would like going to the dream-state by telling the story to someone else in my mind. That was my imaginary friend; it was an imaginary audience listening to my story.

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

I have a very vivid imagination.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.

For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.