Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such 'imagine if' questions... we can distance ourselves from the frames, cues, anchors and rhetoric that might be affecting us.
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That's the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.
I've always been one of those people who wondered 'What if...'
You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.
One hopes that with a book or movie, the reader or the audience will emerge from it thinking. That's the most you can hope for: that you've raised questions that will be there for the audience to think about later.
I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.
As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.
One of the things I say to people is: Imagine if we succeeded.
It's one thing to plan and imagine what you want on a film, but when you actually arrive and survey the scene, there's a moment of, 'Oh my God, what was I thinking?'
There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
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