Ian Gillan Quotes

Imagination is the air of mind.

It's important to have an imagination.

I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things.

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.

I'm a big fan of imagination. I think it's the strongest tool we have, and there are some things that you just can't practice.

I am constantly thinking of different ideas and formats for TV shows. I am in a place where anything is possible if you want to do it.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

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.

What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.

I have a very vivid imagination.

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.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.

I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.

It's fun to try and picture what exactly is in your head and translate it onto the screen. How you can take something that lives in my mind and bring it to life - but that part is fun.

Oftentimes, when I'm trying to get inspired, I'll find myself just staring at the wall and let the fans inspire me to get creative.

Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

Imagination is a funny thing - we sometimes need to see something before we can truly picture it.

I have an active imagination.