Jim Lee Quotes

In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.

In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.

Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.

I don't quite operate within the realist mode. I kind of push the stories out towards the cusp of believability - that's the area of interest for me.

I don't like something so fantasy-filled that I couldn't imagine it ever happening. I like things that could come true. That's how I conduct the show.

When they're watching musicals, I've heard people say, 'That's not realistic! Why would they just start singing?' But, I think they can believe it if they try! I mean, science fiction requires a suspension of disbelief, but people allow themselves to sit back and enjoy it anyway.

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

Good fiction creates its own reality.

My stories include realistic fiction and fantasy.

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

A script can just be a blueprint, and you've got to go in and build it and color it in and paint it.

I can't sculpt. But if I were a sculptor, as you start to get something that actually looks like what you want, then it starts to be fun. That's the way I find writing.

When I was a kid, monsters made me feel that I could fit somewhere, even if it was... an imaginary place where the grotesque and the abnormal were celebrated and accepted.

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.

There can be no 'graduated exercises in drawing' leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.

Great pictures can't be entirely fictitious.

I dream in color.

They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.

Sci-fi and horror, particularly, allow a storyteller to depart from, let's say, the demands of cinema verite or kitchen-sink realism or, even, just relatable dramas and can go into areas that are either - in the case of horror - more primally effective or, in the case of sci-fi, more speculative or imaginative.

To costume yourself in the way that you fantasize, to make that a reality, and then to go right into the universe looking like an exceptional being takes a lot of courage.

We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.

It is probably like an artist. They see in their head what they want to draw, and they draw it. It is like I have a feeling inside me that I want to create on a horse, and that is what I do.

I don't watch films that are too unreal.

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