Quotes About Fantasy

I have more ideas than I know what to do with. I guess I'm a bit of a fantasist and a daydreamer - all sorts of things come to me during the day.

I'm a daydreamer.

Only an ideologue deals with the world as he would wish it to be, as opposed to the world as it is.

In our deepest places, we all wish we could live like Raoul Duke for a while.

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books.

The thing about delirium is you think it's great, but it actually isn't.

I guess a little bit of delusion can go a long way.

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Our delusions of omniscience play a role in our ideas of not only what we want but also what we want to escape.

I myself have always had that secret desire to become something completely different and enact revenge on certain things. So I do that through my movies. My desires become reality in the movie because it can't become real in real life.

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

Some of these love stories can be destructive as examples of what it means to really love. To think that someone is your one and only, that you're fated to be with this person, is a really powerful, sexy fantasy - but it is a fantasy, at least in part.

I think, for the most part, comics have devolved into fantasy for the sake of fantasy.

All of my children's books are attempts to tap into what I believe to be children's, and to some extent human beings', fantasies.

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.

I have a save file in 'Final Fantasy XII' that is 125 hours long. I have gotten into legitimate arguments over the rules governing the tapping of mana in 'Magic: The Gathering.' I don't like hugs or parties, high school sucked for me, and Nathan Fillion deemed something I wrote his 'Favorite 'Firefly' fanboy rant to date.'

I didn't read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Tarzan' and that kind of stuff.

I go back to read 'Tarzan' books every now and again or 'John Carter,' and you realize Edgar Rice Burroughs is not a great writer by any means. But he was a great storyteller. You wanted to see what happened next.

I've been playing Tarzan and Jane since I was a kid.

My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.

I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.