Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
Ian Mcewan
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I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there. -
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. -
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. -
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. -
Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.
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