Lorrie Moore Quotes

I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.

I liked lots of 'Doctor Who' books, but my favourite tale was a spooky story about two invalid children - who've never met in the real world - who get trapped in a shared dreamscape when they fall asleep. It's called 'Marianne Dreams' by Catherine Storr.

I've always wanted to do a world creation story and visually create this amazing, incredible, magical kingdom.

'Swingers' was always set in another world.

I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.

There's a part of 'Twin Peaks' that is sort of a hinged doorway to another, stranger place, if you can imagine such a thing.

Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious.

I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

I thought Doodyville was inside of the television. You know, like, if television was this box - and if I went inside the box that was a television, I'd be in Doodyville.

A movie is like a city. There's, like, 150 people working, and it's all because of something that came out of your head.

There's no set like a Ryan Murphy set, mainly because it feels like he's built an entire world. He's so thoughtful and meticulous, and every detail is thought about and cared for.

In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.

I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our world, which I find a really exciting thought.

I would say my favorite is probably the 'Colder' video. Just because that sort of brings the album artwork to life. It's not my favorite song on the album, but visually, I think it just came out exactly how I had it in my head.

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

I want to create a world where all the rules are different. It should be magical to enter.

One of the great kicks of having a movie made is that you envision this world.

No matter what I've worked on or what art practices I've delved into, they've always been an attempt to world-build.

An artist sees that which does not yet exist. He or she imagines a future others cannot perceive. The artist - and the writer - reshapes reality so that it becomes even more vivid and lasting.

The movies I make don't take place in reality.

My portal to another world was fiction.

Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.

The computer is designed to mimic reality. And in an animated world, in my perspective, that's the worst thing to do. I want people to walk into a movie theater and be transported to a different world.

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.