Riley Keough Quotes

I got to know Australians well working on the 'Mad Max' franchise with director George Miller.

So much of 'Doomsday' is taken from the early 'Mad Max' films.

I loved the world of imagination.

I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.

I don't have a problem with green screen at all. I think children invented CGI. We invent worlds. A stick can become a sword. Or a bowl of stones can become a bowl of tomatoes. That's what children do, and that's what CGI enables us to do.

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

I think it's also safe to say genre TV and movies were a big influence - the first stories I ever tried to write were Godzilla fan fiction when I was in elementary school, complete with elaborate maps of Monster Island made with multiple sheets of typing paper and nearly six feet wide. I kind of wish I still had those.

A script can just be a blueprint, and you've got to go in and build it and color it in and paint it.

When we were kids, our parents would let us play outside all day, and there was a horse-drawn milk wagon that could become anything in my mind, like a spaceship or something.

A lot of people say video games can be stifling. Older people say, 'We had to go outside, and we had to make up stories!' For me, video games broadened my horizons. Playing 'Golden Axe,' I was those characters. I imagined myself being in that world, so honestly, it was a really good thing.

When you do fiction, it is your imagination you have put out there.

A kid in Minecraft can build a world and inhabit it through play. We have the possibility to build the world that we want to inhabit.

What Peter Jackson proved with 'Lord Of The Rings' movies is that you could make various changes, and you could pull things around, but as long as it was in the spirit of the storytelling, and because he made The Shire so real, the fans forgave him for the changes.

Guillermo del Toro is able to invent his worlds. I would find the pressure of having to invent crippling.

When you're a writer and you're an adult, that's something you crave - that limitless imagination and love for worlds that don't exist that you can create.

I'm always excited about stories that allow me to explore a character and create interesting stories and worlds that we haven't seen before.

I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.

With 'Daud,' basically, I wanted to make a very 'Mad Max' kind of a film: that was my original intention.

I am really interested in storytelling in general - nothing is off-limits!

'New Mutants' is the absolute definition of a broken down jalopy, and I took it on, and I just remade it... That's why I was so cocky and confident: because I was like, 'I just turned around this broken down comic book with products of my imagination.'

The fun of writing established characters is that there's a rich mythology to draw from - you get to play with toys you loved as a kid.

When we were children, every day after school, my brother and sister and I would go to my mother's office. It was full of pencils and marker and fabrics and beads. It was so much fun to be a child and to express my creativity through drawing and to playing dress-up in all of the wonderful and colorful clothes.

Fantasy is a genre that allows me to create anything I want. That, in turn, allows me to explore any sort of idea I'm curious about. I love it because Fantasy is a genre that asks, "What if...?" That's my favorite question.