Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.

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

The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.

When I'm writing, I'm creating the story and its character with words. I'm thinking about what the pictures will be like, but I never begin to sketch. The pictures are all in my head.

People have asked me a lot, 'What comes first? The pictures or the story? The story or the picture?' It's hard to describe because often they seem to come at the same time. I'm seeing images while I'm thinking of the story.

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

I find that it's really important for me to imagine characters and situations. That allows me a lot of freedom.

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

I surround myself with fantastical things because it makes it a little easier to write fantastical stories.

When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the author of that book. I think that's really a good thing.

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things I made up in my head so other people could see them.

No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.

I write a story in my head. I see the story like a movie.

When I'm writing, I don't put faces on the characters. When I finish the first draft of the script, I start visualizing, and sometimes then I think about one actor.

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

You sit and you read that, and you have to imagine turning it into a film that people are going to sit and watch. And you have an awful lot of input from a lot of other people. That's the way I work.

It's really cool to see the transformation of reading something on a page and it coming to life.

I'd like to study the drawings of kids. That's where the truth is, without a doubt.

I try to think of the songs as little movies. They're always pretty visual to me. I can always sort of see them. I don't always know what the end result is going to be, and I don't know exactly what it's going to sound like, but I can kinda see them.

I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's imagination. If you are just giving them scientific results, they would forget the film in five minutes flat.

You can't really imagine every moment of a movie in the same way that you wouldn't expect a novelist to envision every sentence of his 800-page novel.