“To me, the scariest movie ever made to this day is The Exorcist. It still scares the living hell out of me, and it’s because of the fantasy element. It’s the exorcism. It’s the Devil. It’s not a guy breaking into your house trying to torture you or cut your whatever off. Those kinds of movies don’t do it for me, and I don’t call them horror.” TryingKindMadeStillsGuyHouseFantasyHellCuttingHorrorElementsDevilTortureThis DayScareExorcismExorcist Author:Cassandra Peterson
“Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.” RealityTurnsImaginationFantasyAirElementsStonesCrucialLiquidVeniceIgnite Book:Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice Source: Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice
“I think authors are just realizing there's no real reason to feel limited to a narrow set of genre rules in their writing. There's no reason a mystery novel can't have fantastic elements in it. Similarly, there's no reason why your epic fantasy series can't have elements of a mystery.” ThinkingFeelsWritingRealReasonRealizingFantasyNovelMysteryElementsSeriesFantasticGenreReason WhyNo ReasonEpicMystery Novels Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn`t quite of the real world.” WorldRealDealsFictionFantasyElementsReal WorldMainstream Author:Stephen King
“The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to follow the same rules as this world, from gravity to how human behaviour works. If you have a fantasy element that doesnt obey the laws of physics, make sure that it has a fantasy explanation.” IfsWorldWantFeelsFirstsHumansMeanRealLawFantasyThis WorldBuildingElementsAvailablePhysicsExplanationGravityBehaviourLaws Of PhysicsHuman Behaviour Author:Trudi Canavan
“The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.” LittlesSportsCommonFantasyElements Author:Jesse Schell
“People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.” PeopleTruthPastWishAcceptingHistoryFantasyElementsGuidesSpheresNeverthelessRepresentationConfusing Author:Johan Huizinga
“In magic I believe I can control certain elements of my environment, I believe I can control certain aspects of my endocrine system, through imagination, visualization, breathing techniques, which in a sense come into the scientific aspects. So magic is a combination, its a soup, a delightful combination of art, imagination, visualization, fantasy, with a healthy dose of solid basis, because it is a science. The thing is we've lost the keys.” BelieveArtI CanCertainLostI BelieveImaginationFantasyEnvironmentMagicKeysHealthyElementsAspectBasesTechniqueCombinationBreathingSoupDelightfulDoseVisualization Author:Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
“I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.” MadeFantasyHavensTvsPeriodsDramaElementsLondon Author:Oliver Jackson-Cohen
“There are plenty of characters of color in fantasy and science fiction. But when you ask the question, "How many of them on-screen have rich, thought-out backgrounds and family elements to draw on?," you quickly find out that the answer is not very many.” CharacterAsksAnswersFictionFantasyRichColorElementsDrawsScience FictionScreensBackgroundsPlenty Author:Stephen H. Segal
“Real world movies or shows that are about things that actually happen versus having superpowers, there's a little bit of a fantasy element to it.” WorldLittlesRealShowsHappensBitsFantasyElementsLittle BitReal WorldVersusSuperpower Author:Dan Payne
“In fantasy, the expression of exploring another world, you get the universal truth of that excitement and fear, but there's an element of fantasy that you have to not forget so you can take people on that journey.” PeopleWorldForgetFantasyJourneyExpressionElementsUniversalExcitementExploringAnother WorldUniversal Truth Author:Dan Payne
“Initially it was a fascination for Tolkienesque Fantasy, and role-playing games, with time I realized that it was the mythological elements that fascinated me the most, so I moved more and more in that direction.” GamesRolesFantasyElementsMovedI RealizedFascinatedFascinationPlaying GamesRole Playing Author:Varg Vikernes
“I'm a fantasy guy. So I brought the fantasy element to the Riddick, David Twohy brought the sci-fi, and it came together.You see that in every aspect of the film.” TogetherFilmGuyFantasyElementsAspectSci Fi Author:Vin Diesel
“To be honest, I wasn't crazy about the kind of poetry I found in high school English books. I didn't get really excited about poetry until I discovered Lorca in college. If it wasn't for surrealism, I'm not sure I'd have become so involved in poetry. I was attracted by the extravagant imagery and elements of fantasy. This was in the '70s and it seemed to fit the psychedelic mood of the times. I found it liberating.” IfsKindBookSchoolFoundFantasyCrazyHonestCollegeInvolvedFitElementsHigh SchoolExcitedMoodBeing HonestNot SureLiberatingImageryGet RealPsychedelicSurrealismExtravagantLorcaSchool English Author:Elaine Equi
“In the past things were either in your head (subjective, imaginary, fantasy) or else they were part of the outside world - cold, hard, concrete materialistic reality. If you want to look at it in terms of poetry, there was surrealism and objectivism. Now there's the veil of the virtual in between. The old opposition between inner and outer doesn't quite capture it, especially as it contains elements of both. It's real but not concrete.” IfsWorldWantLooksRealHardRealityPastTermFantasyColdElementsOppositionCaptureConcreteImaginaryVeilsSubjectiveMaterialisticOutside WorldSurrealismObjectivism Author:Elaine Equi
“Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.” MayDreamInspirationFantasyElementsDreams Come True Author:Paracelsus
“When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.” PeopleChildrenBookTermFantasyNovelElementsIndiaPraiseWestMidnightHistory Books Author:Salman Rushdie
“We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was a rare sight below the waves, of a man's privacy and turmoil, of his dignity upended by the overpowering necessity of pure fantasy, pure thought, by the irreducible human element - Mind.” MenMindHumansLittlesSelfSocialWhiteFantasyPureElementsDignitySightLaysWaveIceVisiblePrivacyTurmoilSubmergedOverpowering Author:Ian Mcewan
“An element of fantasy is needed when falling in love and I was unable to find the fantasy element with any of the male gender” FallFantasyNeededElementsFalling In LoveMalesGender Author:Novala Takemoto