Quotes by Imagination It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today. Michael Apted movieskillsimagination I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course. Michael Atiyah creativityimaginationideas Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination. Michael Chabon carepowerfulimagination The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the stage and shown to the audience. This life is rich and revealing for the audience as well as for the actor himself. Michael Chekhov actorsactingimagination Why be narrow-minded, why cut ourselves off from any of these rich heritages when… we have the freedom to make the most of the best in all techniques? There are no prohibitions against it. All it takes is a little wisdom, imagination and courageous experimentation. Michael Chekhov cuttingtechniqueimagination I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people. Michael D. Higgins imaginationislandspeople I can imagine anything except having no imagination. Michael Chabon imaginei-canimagination The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit. Michael Foley flowerimaginationself If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them. Michael Haneke importantimaginationthinking To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup. Michael Haneke imaginationfacesblood I always seek to mobilize, to call on the imagination of the spectator. It's well-known that the images that are created by one's imagination are far stronger than any that I can show. In fact, it's an error, a widespread error in mainstream cinema, to always want to show things and to depict things. Michael Haneke strongerimagination There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of making a profit. Michael Josephson businessrealimagination I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it. Michael Lindsay-Hogg ambitionimaginationworld Is a brazen and innocent confrontation with paternal authority an unbearably terrifying prospect to some? Are the consequences of a fathers anger and displeasure so catastrophic in the primal imagination that every semblance of it in the world both literally and metaphorically must be denounced in the strongest possible terms? It would seem so. Michael Leunig imaginationfatherworld The desire to be part of something greater and to occupy life more fully, is also a desire to touch and be touched by the living imagination that sustains each soul and all of life. Michael Meade soulimaginationdesire An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool Michael Jackson toolsartistimagination If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination. Michael Moriarty imaginationwantgiving A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it. Michael Pena comicimaginationrunning When you use your imagination anything can happen. Michael Phelps anything-can-happenimaginationuse So you should be able to see them clearly in your imagination. We always find it easier to visualize what we fear; it's what keeps us afraid of the dark. Michael Scott virginiaimaginationdark«104105106107108109110111112113114»
