Steven Spielberg Quotes

It's good to have fantasies and creative fantasies, especially.

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn't like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might.

Books are packaged dreams.

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

I daydream all the time, and I like that quality.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

Imagination decides everything.

I have a very vivid imagination.

I have more ideas than I know what to do with. I guess I'm a bit of a fantasist and a daydreamer - all sorts of things come to me during the day.

I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

For me, imagination would always provide a means of escape.

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

Only in your imagination can you revise.

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.

Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.