The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.
While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.
I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.
It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is.
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.
All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.
There's such a feeling of satisfaction when something you imagined turned into something real.
At first the kid kicking the back of my airplane seat was enraging. Then I imagined it was a broken massage chair and I kinda liked it.
Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen.
When we give from a place of love, rather than from a place of expectation, more usually comes back to us than we could ever have imagined.
My life has not been predictable. I never would have imagined I'd be living where I'm living, doing what I'm doing or married to an American guy. I'm interested to see what will happen next!
Techno is everything you haven't imagined yet
No one need punish me for any wrongs, real or imagined. I am very good at doing it all by myself. I have the scars to prove it.
. . . Men fear what they themselves have imagined.
I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined Id be in a soap opera.
Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad.
I'm beyond proud and happy - I never imagined I would have one fan, and there seems to be a few. I just couldn't be happier that people seem to like what I'm doing and seem to respond to it. If they weren't there, I don't know what I'd be doing right now.
Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?
Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesnt desire the man offering himself to her. Its the desire of a woman for a man who hasnt yet come to her, whom she doesnt yet know. Shes faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.
The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.