Fantasy Quotes - Page 11

'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie.

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

When you come into a movie theatre, there are no windows, you don't hear the sound outside and you're ready for fantasy.

I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.

I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that!

Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.

Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality.

Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism.

Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

I did a 'Love Boat!' And based on my trip on the 'Love Boat,' I said, 'I'd just as soon not do 'Fantasy Island.''

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.

This is the fantasy of every woman - to hold at our feet servile and tame slaves, like in Roman times. And the worse we treat them, the more passionate they become.

I really am a manifestation of my own fantasy.

Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

Because in fantasy perhaps more than in any other genre, the character is rewarded for making the right choices and punished for making the bad. Ask Boromir.

We have more brilliant fantasy novels than brilliant fantasy movies. Movies and TV are done by committee. But with a novel, it's really just one person running the show. That allows for a clarity and unity of vision that's pretty unique, artistically.

Did anyone ever hear of an intelligent fantasy?

It’s better to succeed against daunting odds than settle for a fantasy and get nowhere.

Which is the supplement? Fantasy or daily routine?

All people live in a fantasy in which they are the main character.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo.