Jan de Bont Quotes

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

I love coming up with the stories and being creative and working with creative people and coming up with visuals and creating characters.

It's so difficult to actually come up with ideas that you really fall in love with, you know? That's the most difficult thing about filmmaking - and that's my main challenge in life.

I have got a good imagination.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

Imagination is the most powerful tool you have. You learn it from all the greats. The Star Wars films are secretive. Anything J.J. Abrams does is secretive. Those guys haven't done too poorly.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

Talent works, genius creates.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

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.

I love video games. I'm also slightly in awe of them. I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I'm in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, like really nothing else we've ever invented has quite done before.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

Imagination is the air of mind.

All of the stuff I can't afford to do on a TV budget, I just put into the comic book because you're really only limited in a comic by your artist's imagination.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.