Rhys Ifans Quotes

What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.

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

I loved the world of imagination.

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

Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.

There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.

When you go to the movies, you expect the movie to create a world that you can immerse yourself in, that you can step into. Sci-fi is a beautiful way of doing that.

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living. 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."

For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it's serious, and art is serious, but I'm not going to rarefy it.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're telling.

I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.

I always wanted to be part of a movie that creates a different world.

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

If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration.

Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality.

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.

Take it from me: I really love making things up, which is why I write fiction for a living.

I definitely think my work comes from things that I liked as a kid, and things I still like now. Monsters and magic and museums and movies, a lot of things that start with 'M' for some reason.

Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end; there must be a sense of magic created about the most restrained of naturalism.

I like fantasy.

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