James Duval Quotes

I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming.

Our souls need time to think, dream, and reflect.

I listen to myself, I listen to my body, my mind; I follow my heart.

From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

I think my characters are more wish fulfillments than they are mirrors. They see things I don't and live in a world I can only enter through words.

I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.

The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life.

I have a lot of fantasy.

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream.

I believe the more important thing is your mind and your heart. Those two things are the most ignored parts of our beings.

I love dreaming!

Be as in touch with your dreams as you can be.

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.

I live in my imagination, so sometimes movies help me get lost. I feel like I'm in it.

I spent a lot of time in my head, but not like caring about what everybody else thought, just literally in my own world.

I take a lot of enjoyment out of imagining myself as... I dunno... a wall. I keep adding bricks to my wall or little house.

I've always been curious about the other worlds we can shift into in our imaginations.

It's very important for people to know what gives them meaning. But it's hard for people to figure out if you're not connecting with yourself and taking the time to just be introspective and daydream.

I don't think it necessarily makes me want to go back to my 20s, but what I love about playing any type of character is the escapism.

I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with the dusk on the farm-roads, or the smoke on the plain. I begun in the evenings to write stories, fairy-tales, and romances, that would take my mind a long way off, to other countries and times.