I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I'm interested in. As a way of commenting on everything that does happen in life, because ultimately the only thing I'm really interested in is people.
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
I'm a total nerd. I love fantasy.
I don't want to get pigeonholed just doing just family films and fantasy films. . . I don't really want to get pigeonholed just doing anything in particular.
All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.
The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed. Essentially, therefore, it is a mythological figure. . . . In each of these images there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a remnant of the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our ancestral history. . . .
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
As a kid, I loved any fantasy.
When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.
Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.
When I first saw Ellie, I knew it was her-- she was my fantasy. I didn't want it to be true, but every time I met her it was obvious, and the funny thing was that she was better than the fantasy, like I got more stuff than I'd imagined.
I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.
Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy.
Dealing with the impossible, fantasy can show us what may be really possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of consolation; if hurt, the possibility of healing; and above all, the curative power of hope. If fantasy speaks to us as we are, it also speaks to us as we might be
All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be. There was nowhere else I wanted to go. TV was of no interest. Films were just a fantasy. Yet I was convinced that when we found ourselves in that world of fantasy and sci-fi, it was our classical background and our training that equipped us for that larger-than life-world.
Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.
Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.
I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.
We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough.