J. J. Abrams Quotes

You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality. Some people find that daunting; I find it challenging.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

Everything you can imagine is real.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.

I'm always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms.

I prefer the magic to reality, and have since I was 5 years old. Hopefully, I can continue to make films and constantly escape into them.

Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same principles as nature, but they apply them to individual entities, while nature, to use a Goethean expression, thinks nothing of individual things. She is always building and destroying, because she wants to achieve perfection, not in the individual thing, but in the whole.

Everything we can imagine becomes real.

It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.

imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.

To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.

If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my feelings, or for my thoughts. So that, in a sense, a fantastic story is as real and perhaps more real than a mere circumstantial story. Because after all, circumstances come and go, and symbols remain.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

Mind is the creator of everything.