Quotes About Fantasy

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.

The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in some faith or fantasy, there will never be an answer.

The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real, for a moment at least, that long magic moment before we wake.

It's an amazing thing to be able to fall into the world of your childhood fantasy.

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.

Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing . . . out of which you can't make anything.

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

There's a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.

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.

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

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.

I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.

Any idiot, any stockbroker can get out there and live out a fantasy and pretend like he's playing music. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.

Fashion is such a fairytale and it is such a fantasy. And it's about metamorphosis and sort of changing yourself and playing a part that you want people to see.

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone's fantasies.

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.

Modeling is about fantasy, getting people to buy into a lifestyle and a vision.