Quotes About Fiction

India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.

I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.

I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror.

I don't like zombie movies, they're just plain silly.

Shouldn't we stand back to back or something?" "What? Why?" "I don't know. In movies that's what they do in this kind of… situation.

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

They're always wrong in the movies.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different audience of people.

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction.

If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil himself, Lord Shiva.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.