Fantasy Quotes - Page 9

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me

When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

I live between fantasy and reality at all times. In that way, I’m a librarian.

If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped us to understand why capitalism won by a knockout. It was Hayek who elaborated the basic argument demonstrating that central planning was nothing else but an impoverishing fantasy.

A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack of wisdom, fantasies. At the same time, that's where my creativity can be found. If I tried to control it and make it more mature, it wouldn't be good at all. It'd be uninteresting, without any vivacity.

Most fantasy is incredibly derivative of Tolkien, so when you read a lot of fantasy, it's really just elves and gnomes, and it all goes back to Tolkien.

I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life.

So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)

Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young.

Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy.

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.

The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for.

You have this great big fantasy life, and it looks like a non-stop 24/7 party. But what do you do when you get to the end of the Internet and there's nothing left to buy? There's just a picture of Wayne Newton flipping you off.

One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

I don't know what that weid fantasy is that makes people go, "Oh, you must have had a great childhood."

Guess I've been reading too much fantasy.

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.