Bruce Eric Kaplan Quotes

Imagination is the air of mind.

For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things.

It's fun to try and picture what exactly is in your head and translate it onto the screen. How you can take something that lives in my mind and bring it to life - but that part is fun.

I have got a good imagination.

I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.

I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes - I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.

I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

You never know how - or when - the idea for a book will appear.

When you're drawing something, you kind of run a movie in your head. You might close your eyes or stare into the distance and kind of see a movie unfolding and, you know, grab a certain moment or think, 'Oh, yeah, that's when we need just the point that he appears around the corner but just as she's getting into the car,' you know?

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

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.

I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.

Ideas come from somewhere. People don't come up with these ideas from nowhere. Something triggers your thoughts.

'Fowl Space' was a lovechild of boredom. While in class, two of the developers started passing designs back and forth. Somewhere in the middle of all that ink and crumpled paper, a chicken in a space helmet was born and thus we have 'Fowl Space.'

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