Myth Quotes - Page 7

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.

All systems require myths for their longevity.

The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it.

It is the crucifixion that distinguishes the new message from the mythologies of all other peoples.

I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops.

Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.

I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology.

A controlling man, surely a mythical creature?

Myth and tool mutually constitute each other.

There are a lot of myths about gay people.

Magic is at the core of myths.

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist

Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.

The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.

North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.

It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

We must first get over the myth that older workers can’t innovate.

Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth.

I have built my world through Native American mythology.

I'm very at home working with mythology.

I actually met a producer of Stanley Kubrick's who told me that Kubrick had never even thought about doing Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer. He just read it and didn't want to do it - that's it. There's a myth around that he said it's not filmable. But he never wanted to film it.

If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one