Brent Spiner Quotes

Making a movie really frees up the way you think.

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living. When I was making "Star Wars," I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, "I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it."

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order to do really good science fiction.

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

Imagination is the air of mind.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

Imagination decides everything.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

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.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

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

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.

The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character.