Quotes About Epic

If you are going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

Never has been a LONG hortatory poem', Pound advised John Hargrave, the leader of the Green Shirts, a militant wing of Social Credit: 'Epic…is not incitement to IMMEDIATE act/ you tell the tale to direct the auditor toward admiration of certain nobilities, courage etc.' Or, putting it another way, this time to Basil Bunting as a fellow poet, 'The poet's job is to define and yet again define till the detail of surface is in accord with the root in justice.

God creates history, while people create an epic or a drama, drawn either from God's history or from unreality and pure fiction.

this was all evidence of the tradition at work, of Homer being more interested in epic music than its meaning.

Infinite Jest isn't a book, it's a fucking planet.

I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books.

'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

I suffer from bizarre dreams and epic nightmares.

My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.

What I enjoy most about 'The Lord of the Rings' is that extended cut. To be able to sit there on a Sunday afternoon and watch 'The Lord of the Rings' from beginning to end is pretty fun.

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

They couldn't touch him because he was Tarzan, Mandrake, Flash Gordon. He was Bill Shakespeare. He was Cain, Ulysses, the Flying Dutchman; he was Lot in Sodom, Deirdre of the Sorrows, Sweeney in the nightingales among trees.

An epic without a focus - without a single action, a coherent plot, a single terrible point to make - was just a very long poem.

Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [A New Hope's] blend of adventure, likable characters, and epic storytelling.

We live in an age where people will watch epic entertainment on their phones.

I don't have a specific message for 'The Grace of Kings' and the sequels in mind other than wanting to challenge some of the source material I was working from as well as some of the assumptions of epic fantasy.

Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.

'Warcraft' by its very nature is epic in scale.

I would love to be in 'Star Wars.'

It would be excellent to do a 'Star Wars.'

'Star Wars' is different to anything I've done before.

I love really epic films. I really like 'The Princess Bride,' 'Lord of the Rings.' I really like 'Star Wars.' I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm obsessed with 'Harry Potter.'

I love 'Empire' - it's my favorite of the 'Star Wars' series.