Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.
When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.
I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.
If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.
Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have.
You can spend your time daydreaming or make use of it in other ways.
A daydream is an evasion.
Darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream.
The real thing, when done right , is always better than a daydream
Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.
I live my daydreams in music.
I'm often daydreaming and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
Daydreaming subverts the world.
Normally, I would do research. For The Constant Gardener, I played an activist, so I went to meet activists. You can find them dotted around. But with The Brothers Bloom, I couldn't meet a nutty heiress who lived in a bubble in a mansion. There was no one to meet. So this was just an active imagining, a daydream.
I keep saying that backwards is all you can see. You can't see front. My wife says, "Stop, you're always in the past. " She sees me sort of daydreaming.
Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming.
A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.
