I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books. ~By Jean M. Auel ~
But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world. ~By Elizabeth Moon ~
My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed. ~By John Krasinski ~
So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy. ~By Octavia Butler ~
I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life. ~By Geoffrey Rush ~
We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse. ~By Puff Daddy ~
In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic. ~By Jonathan Carroll ~
I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'. ~By Terry Goodkind ~
I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters. ~By Margaret Weis ~
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. ~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
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. ~By Bill Maher ~
In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy. ~By Betty Hill ~
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. ~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?' ~By Mariska Hargitay ~
There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer. ~By Ralph Fiennes ~
Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction. ~By Joan D. Vinge ~
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. ~By Lionel Trilling ~
If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig. ~By Todd McFarlane ~
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. ~By Elizabeth Moon ~
It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing. ~By John Perry Barlow ~
What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen! ~By Isaac Mizrahi ~
Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about. ~By Diana Wynne Jones ~
Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest. ~By Kate Winslet ~
There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way. ~By Terri Windling ~
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. ~By Max Beerbohm ~
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. ~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research. ~By Sarah Zettel ~
Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms. ~By Milton Avery ~
The Company of Wolves doesn't belong in any category, so it's difficult to prepare an audience for it. It's not a horror film, it's not a fantasy film, it's not a children's film - so what is it? ~By Neil Jordan ~
In real football, I wouldn't want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you're nuts if you don't take him in fantasy. ~By Randy Cross ~
Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestra and some of the Final Fantasy scores were played. This year there is another concert scheduled in the same location, for game music. ~By Nobuo Uematsu ~
When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list for the LA concert. ~By Nobuo Uematsu ~
I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale. ~By Harrison Ford ~
So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy. ~By Radha Mitchell ~
When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there. ~By Piers Anthony ~
I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism. ~By James Cameron ~
Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally. ~By Joseph Barbera ~
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published. ~By Lynn Abbey ~
I've never seen myself as a fantasy writer - ever. ~By Jonathan Carroll ~
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. ~By Joss Whedon ~
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy. ~By Harrison Ford ~
Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing. ~By Jay Mohr ~
I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing. ~By Kate Moss ~
Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher! ~By Terri Windling ~
I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew. ~By Ben Kingsley ~
Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment? ~By Franz Schubert ~
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it. ~By Mason Cooley ~
One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from. ~By Terri Windling ~
I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting. ~By Elizabeth Moon ~
It's my job, to create a fantasy. ~By Anne Heche ~
I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't! ~By Hugh Grant ~
Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I was gone and kids used to walk past my front room, cause I lived on the green. ~By Eric Clapton ~
I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker. ~By George Eads ~
One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. ~By Penn Jillette ~
Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration. ~By Paracelsus ~
I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be. ~By Jennifer Garner ~
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. ~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy. ~By James Earl Jones ~
Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey. ~By Godfried Danneels ~
I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy. ~By Jennifer Connelly ~
Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener. ~By Nanci Griffith ~
Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work. ~By Mark Rylance ~
I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too. ~By Kevin J. Anderson ~
Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. ~By R. A. Salvatore ~
The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered. ~By Lou Brock ~
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. ~By Manuel Puig ~
It's a fantasy that we could have a president who could actually make choices based on what's right, rather than having to weigh the political fallout. But that's sort of what we're showing. And you can dream. ~By Geena Davis ~
But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they're in a dire situation or comedic situation. ~By Fisher Stevens ~
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. ~By Albert Einstein ~
All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality. ~By Michele Bachmann ~
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he "lives" his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. ~By G. I. Gurdjieff ~
The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies. ~By Sarah Zettel ~
Rose was sexy. It was my fantasy about her. She accomplished so much and came from so little in terms of a background that would have prepared her for the world, let alone the world of entertainment. ~By Linda Lavin ~
I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes. ~By Jeri Ryan ~
And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy. ~By Peter Shaffer ~
In my fantasy I was always the savior. I would come to Peanuts land and save everybody. Charlie Brown would fall madly in love with me. Peppermint Patty was so jealous. ~By Alicia Witt ~
Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy. ~By Jean M. Auel ~
I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal. ~By Mikhail Gorbachev ~
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. ~By Harry Knowles ~
I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy. ~By Joseph Fiennes ~
This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time. ~By Yasmine Bleeth ~
I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is perhaps a startling concept, but I think it's true. ~By Diana Wynne Jones ~
Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends. ~By Robin Wright Penn ~
Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines. ~By Judith Krantz ~
Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind. ~By Zhang Yimou ~
The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there. ~By David Steinberg ~
I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene. ~By Maggie Gyllenhaal ~
If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own. ~By David Eddings ~
The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters. ~By Shawn Ashmore ~
Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy. ~By Grace Jones ~
I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy. ~By Richard O'Brien ~
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. ~By Manuel Puig ~
Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on. ~By Terry Brooks ~
All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy. ~By Eddie Campbell ~
Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy. ~By Giacomo Casanova ~
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms. ~By Manuel Puig ~
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. ~By Edward Albee ~
They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist. ~By Rick Yune ~
I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four. ~By Radha Mitchell ~
I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. ~By Dario Argento ~
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