I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.
Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would you get around gravity? Impossible. Do I believe that I might be able to project my consciousness into a very, very vivid simulation of flying? Yeah. Yes, I've done that. Yes, that works.
I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them.
The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color.
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
As writers, we do our best to conjure a world so vivid that the reader can practically walk through it - but we're still only using words and relying on readers to do a lot of work of imagining. Providing pictures as well as words offers a whole new dimension to the experience of consuming a story.
I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.
The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.
Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.
I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
John Kerry had a very vivid imagination as a young person. I mean, he actually did go and take his bicycle from Norway to go camp in Sherwood Forest to be around the ghost of Robin Hood.
I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in my mind. I don't need the precision of the picture.
I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
My daughter has a vivid imagination, and so does my son.
If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work with. The challenge comes with deciding what to cut and what to keep.
