As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.
I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.
The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.
I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.
Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!
The camera is your way to see what you want to see - it's an extension of the director's fantasy. I'm executing my personal fantasy, whether it's a fantasy of pleasure or of pain and fear.
Everybody must have a fantasy.
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.
As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.
A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
My fantasy is that there is a new regulatory body that is in charge of algorithmic auditing.
I am not living the American Dream; I am living the American fantasy.
If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.
There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood. . . in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs.
The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.
I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise.