Noma Dumezweni Quotes

With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it lives in you.

I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.

Most of my interests in terms of writing are dark, so it's discordant how much I try to lock into the vibe of wherever I'm at. Inhabiting the life of the imagination is the nature of survival strategy - you build yourself little worlds to enjoy.

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

When I was small, I was always thinking about different worlds in my head.

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.

As a kid, I loved the idea of alternate possibilities, roads not taken, that sort of thing - and I think seeing the 'Adventure Time' universe rendered by the artists in those stories will scratch that same itch really well.

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

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.

Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human.

Man lives by imagination.

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'

When everything does seem out of control, writing fiction is a way I can order that chaos and restore some sort of meaning. I like the playful aspect of writing fiction. You know how it is when we are kids and we make up our worlds: You be this guy, and I am going to be this guy, and we are going to go slay dragons.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.

I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. I really do think that dreaming and fantasies are very important to the human psyche and the soul. That's why I want to act.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

I loved the world of imagination.

I like to write about things that don't reflect exactly on my life.

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