Sam Wood Quotes

It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view.

A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

You invent this massive lagoon of information without any pressure to do anything apart from create this person, a person that might fit the bill that is the character that is emerging from the research.

I love creating new characters that are whatever they are.

When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as many different avenues as you can in order to make it a fully wounded character.

I don't think most of our films should be realistic, but you want that as an artistic possibility. Then, the artist can take the realism of the world and push it in ways that we can connect with.

As a writer of fiction, you don't ever want to limit the characters you create to the life you've lived. That's insanity to me.

Being a creative person, I want to feel the highs and the lows.

When I was a little girl and people would ask me what I wanted to be when I got older, I always used to say I want to be paid to think. So for me, to dream, to think, to write - it is wonderful.

I eventually thought of SpongeBob, but he needed a last name - SquarePants came to mind.

Gutzon Borglum, the individual, is nothing. Art, expression, freedom are everything. On this I stand or fall.

Oftentimes I feel like I can, through the music, paint a picture of something that I can't look anywhere and see in my real life.

I believe it's important for us to have a diverse and free approach to making games in the way that we like.

Designing characters for 'Dragon Quest' is fun but difficult work.

I feel very strongly as a writer and as a director it is not my job to crush the audience's imagination.

For as long as I can remember, I was always creating random characters.

Writing has always been an incredible outlet for me to feel like I have a voice, even when sometimes I was the only one reading my work. It has been a way for me to unlock my imagination. That's when the world becomes yours, after all.

Rather than deliberately trying to draw something, use something you yourself like and want to draw, and I think the characters that come out of that will really have their own individuality.

There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your idea from listening, looking, or imagining. Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is pay attention.

The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.

Every character I've had in my act - none of them have a similar creation story. I actually thought up Peanut and designed him in my head. I described him to a woman that was making soft puppets and she drew up some sketches. And the character came to be just because he popped into my head.

Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to, too, because all children aspire to inhuman feats like flying. Most people grow up to realize they can't fly. Writers are people who don't grow up to realize they can't be God.

The writing is - I'm free of pain. It's the place where I live; it's where I have control; it's where nobody tells me what to do; it's where my imagination is fecund and I am really at my best. Nothing matters more in the world or in my body or anywhere when I'm writing.

The most fun thing about being a writer is that everything is interesting.

When I was nine, I asked my Dad, ‘Can I have your movie camera? That old, wind-up 8-millimeter movie camera that’s in your drawer?’ And he goes, ‘Sure, take it.’ And I took it, and I started making movies with it, and I started being as creative as I could, and never once in my life did my parents ever say, ’ What you’re doing is a waste of time.’ Never….. I know there are kids out there that don’t have that support system. So, if you’re out there and you’re listening, listen to me: If you wanna be creative, get out there and do it. It’s not a waste of time.