Quotes About Fantasy

The very essence of ballet is poetic, deriving from dreams rather than from reality. About the only reason for its existence is to enable us to remain in the world of fantasy and escape from the people we rub shoulders with in the street. Ballets are the dreams of poets taken seriously.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

And once again sentimentality seems to be dialectically related to violence and brutality, in imagination if not in deed.

Then he struck her with a magic wand, and she was changed back into a young woman, the fairest ever seen.

When congregations hold passive views of human responsibility, the evidence is that they are not growing. If some teaching claims to be the Gospel but does nothing in response, does not elicit any compassionate action, then it is surely not the Gospel. The fantasy of a gospel that does nothing is not the good news of the New Testament.

If a man "whose talk is of oxen" should become an opium-eater, the probability is, that (if he is not too dull to dream at all)—he will dream about oxen.

thou buildest upon the bosom of darkness, out of the fantastic imagery of the brain, cities and temples.

The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.

For 'Monster Hunter,' we needed insane landscapes.

Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.

Daily fantasy sports is neither victimless nor harmless, and it is clear that DraftKings and FanDuel are the leaders of a massive, multi-billion-dollar scheme intended to evade the law and fleece sports fans across the country.

I think if I did do something in another genre, it would be science fiction; I'm a big sci fi nerd.

You can't play a hobbit if you're not prepared to be a part of nerd culture.

I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.

I wanted to make my stories, which are inspired by Asian stories, into something fresh, decontextualized - to give them new life as a new kind of fantasy that isn't so cloying and exotic and strange.

I really enjoyed entering a new world and getting to know a new character - the world of 'Grimm' and becoming a Wesen.

I'm not well-versed in the science fiction world. I'm hoping that I'll get more opportunities in it because you get to create a new world.

Ultimately, the idea of being able to escape and lose myself in a new world every time I go to 'work' was too appealing to ignore.

I was watching a lot of 'Game of Thrones' while I was breastfeeding a newborn.

Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a feature film that I would be involved in some way. And then I finally got it, and I was over the moon. It was fantastic news.

I remember I did think, 'Wouldn't it be nice if Mr. Right moved in next door?'

'The Nice Guys' fulfilled my 1970s fantasy.

I had nightmares as a kid. As an adult, I have very prosaic dreams.