David Twohy Quotes

Children live in a world filled with possibilities. Their thoughts roam without boundaries, like dreams – full of images, places and actions. Unlike adults, they can’t temper their imaginations with experience. So, when a child plays with a toy or reads a story, it becomes an adventure, a new reality to them.

I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

It's the reason we go to films and watch television: to escape the mundane nature of life and see another world and see ourselves in that other world. I think that's what sci-fi does so well.

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky.

The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.

Space opera has always given authors a way to include a vast array of ideas and concepts. The opportunities it provides are limitless. Long may it reign.

'Snowpiercer' was out of this world. It gave me a chance to do something I'd never done before, to create a whole new world.

In a book, you can describe a scene and have any song you want playing on the radio and have any painting you want hanging on the wall. That was really freeing to me when I was writing 'Ready Player One.' I could throw in everything that I love.

Despite what everyone thinks about science fiction, ultimately, at its best, it's about human beings with human emotions.

As a kid, I loved the idea of alternate possibilities, roads not taken, that sort of thing - and I think seeing the 'Adventure Time' universe rendered by the artists in those stories will scratch that same itch really well.

Everything is so much clearer once a world is framed. Maybe it sounds crazy, but with writing, it's infinity that is limiting and the limited that allows for the truly infinite. Once all those elements are in place in a story, the brain is truly freed up to imagine without end.

I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.

If there was no risk, it wouldn't be art. It wouldn't be worth making. There is risk even in a fairy tale. Fiction is closest to pure narrative, and pure narrative is simply the logic we try to impose on an ever-changing reality.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

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

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

I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

I never failed at anything in fiction.