Quotes About Fantasy

Porn is somehow supposed to be real--something we never expect of film, by its very nature a technique of illusion. We expect porn to show us exactly what we dread about it: the truth of our desire.

The children were actors on a moving stage, carrying out philosophical debates while borrowing fragments of floating dialogue. Themes from fairy tales and television cartoons combined with social commentary and private fantasy to form a tangible script that was not random and erratic.

Once upon a time, before pizzerias or Taco Bells, there was a troll named Rumpelstiltskin who began to wonder what a human baby would taste like.

It's difficult to tell which of those brothers is more foolish," Grandmother whispered to Isolda, "Jakob or Wilhelm. They live in a fantasy world of their own." Shaking her head, Isolda agreed. "Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became was writers.

But even as he put his scaly arms out to take the baby, another scaly arm pulled back one of the tapestries, and out stepped—of all trolls—his own brother.

Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their nature, which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as "nymphets."

Illusion is the first of the pleasures

He was a great teller of tales, and unlike our common romancers, knew how to empty heaven, hell, and purgatory, faeryland and earth, to people his stories.

such are the topsy-turvydoms of faery glamour—in a cockleshell.

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.

A fairy tale...on the other hand, demands of the reader total surrender; so long as he is in its world, there must be for him no other.

The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another.

I dream of things that never were

Give it up? Not likely. Besides, what else would I do? I totally should have gone to Hogwart's when I had the chance.

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!

If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.

Elves don't shimmer

She blinked once, then twice, and yet again, sure what she viewed was just another part of this fantasy world that she had stepped into when her feet touched the green grass of Ireland.

To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.

I'd like to have the flying car, I think that'd be really cool.

I like 'Donnie Darko' it's a cool take on dreams and sleep.

And no-one has ever questioned the courage of the Dwarves.