Fantasy Quotes - Page 34

• A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.

  James Mangold

  Reality, Kind, Film

  "Director James Mangold Talks THE WOLVERINE, How Closely the Film Follows the Comic Book Arc, Its Relation to Other X-MEN Movies, and More" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. January 8, 2013.

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• My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand plot of the entire series, and there is the complete-in-itself, one-book plot.

  Juliet Marillier

  Book, Two, Advice

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• Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're telling.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Mean, Care, Imagine

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• What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy.

  Robin McKinley

  Children, Writing, Thinking

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• I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

  China Mieville

  Fiction, Geek, Science Fiction

  Interview with Lou Anders, www.believermag.com. April 2005.

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• I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.

  Don McLean

  Fun, Real, Teenager

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• I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

  Don McLean

  Song, Stuff, Written

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• I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Reality, Magic, Fans

  "The Night Circus's dazzling, high-wire debut". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2011.

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• '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.

  Chris Weitz

  Fantasy Novels, Ideas, Ironic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't care for horror and fantasy films. I never go to see them in the theater. I know I've played in many of them, but I didn't do them because of their genre - I did them just because I loved their scripts.

  Peter Weller

  Care, Scripts, Film

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names we still use today, like ‘Robert’, and in some case I tweaked them a little bit. I made ‘Edward’ into ‘Eddard’. If you look back at medieval times, no one knew how to spell their own names. There are a lot of variations that we’ve lost.

  George R. R. Martin

  Names, Looks, Use

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• I do know what’s been useless to me is the online fantasy name generators. I’ve tried those a few times, and they say, ‘Just hit this button and we’ll generate 50 fantasy names,’ and they all turn out to be ‘Grisknuckle’.

  George R. R. Martin

  Names, Buttons, Useless

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• My real life’s not like the fantasy Tom Ford world – with naked girls pouring perfume everywhere. It’s more staying in and watching Friends on television.

  Tom Ford

  Girl, Real, Naked

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• The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

  Saul Alinsky

  World, Judgment, Should

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.26, Vintage

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• We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.

  Lynda Barry

  Believe, Reality, Able

  Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com. February 12, 2016.

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• Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of a woman still tied to her place as the bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.

  Laura Mulvey

  Men, Order, Males

  Laura Mulvey (1989). “Visual and Other Pleasures”, p.15, Springer

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• Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.

  Terry Gilliam

  Thinking, Magic Realism, Age

  "Salman Rushdie Talks with Terry Gilliam". www.believermag.com. March 2003.

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• The heart grows brutal feeding on fantasies.

  Robert Pinsky

  Heart, Feeding, Brutal

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• We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.

  Patti Stanger

  Husband, Thinking, Wife

  "Patti Stanger: What I’ve Learned About Love". Interview with Juli Alvarez, www.eharmony.com. August 28, 2012.

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• If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.

  P. C. Cast

  Dream, Careers, Desire

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• For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.

  Harry Knowles

  Years, Perfection, Cinema

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• I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

  Jean-Pierre Melville

  Moving, Realism, Spectators

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• If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Events, Enough, Ready

  Sheila Ballantyne (1983). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Viking Pr

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• The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world would be like if everyone's behavior was utterly consistent with some abstract moral ideal-in this case, economic theories that assume all human action is based on calculating, systematic, (but scrupulously law-abiding), greed.

  David Graeber

  Dream, Law, Greed

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• Life is replete with comedy, drama, horror, suspense, tragedy, romance, mystery, fantasy and a good dose of fiction. While at times the plot may seem to be lacking, the special effects alone are well worth the price of admission.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Drama, Romance

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