“I think we all want to find the love of our life and live our fantasies. What art student hasn't used his art to get girls? What journalists or actors haven't used their craft as well? It's a very human instinct to pursue.” ThinkingArtGirlFantasyStudentsInstinctJournalist Author:Max Minghella
“We like people who look good, we like people who elevate our standards, who have things we do not have, it's all about our fantasies. Yes, you can make millions of people dream about somebody who's not good looking, and that's the beauty of cinema, but people don't take the chance that often.” PeopleDreamChanceFantasyLooking Good Author:Emmanuel Benbihy
“Internationally and in foreign markets, movies starring women don't make as much money as movies starring men. And then you can blame filmmakers, especially in comedy, which is my bread and butter, because it's become a bit of a boys' club over the years. With the boys in charge you get these takes on women which are either the girlfriend or the mean wife or the girl who appears in a romantic comedy. You're just getting either men's fantasies about women or what they think is the reality about women instead of men just having a healthy attitude about women.” ThinkingMenMeanRealityGirlAttitudeBoysFantasyComedyWifeHealthyBlameFilmmakerGirlfriendMovie Star Author:Paul Feig
“Every actor, I don't care what they say, their roles are a lot more interesting than we are, and at the end of the day, it's still entertainment or fantasy. I think we can learn a lot from the characters we play and I find that the characters are even more noble than myself.” ThinkingCharacterCareInterestingFantasy Author:Moon Bloodgood
“There's always been this strand of filmmaking in Britain which is like socialist neo-realism. That's always been there. I've never been part of that, really; I've been much closer to fantasy.” FantasyFilmmakingSocialist Author:John Boorman
“I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. The way I write is about life and is quite truthful, and there is a kind of brutal side to the relationship, and to the feelings, that makes it somewhat painful, but I think it's a very intense portrait of the relationship of two people. And a bit about what people feel like when they're alone, because it all takes place in one day, and during the day, they spend a lot of time alone in their different - you get to imagine what their fantasy lives are like.” PeopleThinkingWritingTryingKindDifferentFeelingsFantasyImagineOne DayPainfulIntenseTruthfulBrutalMe AloneNaturalism Author:Wallace Shawn
“For me personally, I think I just enjoy movies about werewolves or vampires because it's not like an everyday thing. It's something you can really escape into. Underworld I'm a huge fan of because it's a great love story, but at the same time when it comes to vampires and werewolves it's just such a fantasy. It has everything involved in it. Action, it's sexy, it's interesting, there's just so many things involved in it that make it so cool.” ThinkingActionEnjoyInterestingFantasyEverydaySexyLove StoryVampireGreat LoveWerewolf Author:Agnes Bruckner
“I've always really loved big worlds and the kind of worldbuilding where you can open a portal into a new realm that feels full and complete. At the same time, I also really love history. So the combination of big worlds and history draws me directly into fantasy. Well, it should turn me towards historical fiction but I'm such a perfectionist about research that I'm not sure I could ever write a book in that genre properly. In fantasy, you have to have the same level of precision, but it's not as research-based. Plus, I get to write my little info sheets and draw my maps.” WorldWritingKindBookFantasyHistoricalNot SureHistorical FictionPerfectionistPortal Author:Victoria Aveyard
“I think what I'm doing is quintessentially American because I'm not American - even though I am on the verge of getting my American passport next week - I have a fantasy of what is American. Big spaces, Marlon Brando, James Dean, easy living.” ThinkingEasyFantasyWeekBrando Author:Italo Zucchelli
“I love the idea of playing something stupid or romantic. I'm not the smartest man in the room. I listen, and I learn, and I observe, but I'm always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That's great fun, even though it's as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.” PeopleMenCharacterFunFantasyStupidIntellect Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I'm not able to completely escape naturalism. It's very difficult to escape from naturalism without being too dry. That's what I try to do in my cinema - escape naturalism and do films that are, at the same time, realistic but have a lot of fantasy. It's very difficult in cinema to get away from what life is about, from real life. The way the actors work has to be realistic - you can't do Baroque acting - so it's very complicated. And, we're human beings, so we're not perfect. I'm trying to do something different.” TryingDifferentRealFilmDifficultPerfectActingFantasyComplicatedReal LifeGet AwayRealisticBeing RealNot PerfectNaturalismBaroque Author:Philippe Garrel
“A precondition for being a science fiction writer other than an interest in the future is that, an interest - at least an understanding of science, not necessarily a science degree but you must have a feeling for the science and its possibilities and its impossibilities, otherwise you're writing fantasy. Now, fantasy is also fine, but there is a distinction, although no one's ever been able to say just where the dividing lines come.” WritingFeelingsUnderstandingInterestFantasyPossibilityScience FictionImpossibility Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“My first experiences with fashion were dressing up. It was always about fantasy for me. Dressing up as characters . . . I always thought that's what clothes were - that they would make you into the person you wanted to be. I'm an actress, so I love to act, and I think that's one of the most important things - the thing that makes you feel like another person.” ThinkingImportantCharacterFantasyFashion Author:Cara Delevingne
“I look at all of world mythology and folklore as my toy to play with. There are just so many characters and creatures there I want to put on paper. It's a really exciting thing for me to take material that I really love and put a new coat of paint on it and present it to this audience. And I don't have to make up any of the characters. I can just pull a book of mythology off the shelf and say, "I'll use this guy." I also hate making up names for fantasy characters. I'll just flip through these books and say, "Wow, this is way crazier than anything I could make up".” WorldBookCharacterGuyHateFantasyAudienceExcitingPaintMythologyFolkloreMaking Up Author:Mike Mignola
“There is nothing "useful" about fashion, which is why it is fashion and not clothes. My personal opinion about the runway is that it should be used to whisk the audience off to a fantasy world that is possible, but not probably. It should delight and inspire.” WorldOpinionFantasyAudienceFashionInspire Author:Robin Givhan
“I find it interesting that authors of fantasy and science fiction novels are rarely asked if their books are based on their personal experiences, because all writing is based on personal experience. I may not have gone on an epic quest through a haunted forest, but the feelings in my books are often based on feelings I've had. Real-life events, in fantasy and science fiction, can take on metaphorical significance that they can't in a so-called realistic novel.” WritingBookFeelingsInterestingFantasyNovelScience FictionSignificanceRealisticEpicMetaphorical Author:Malinda Lo
“The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic things. They're about basic fears or longings or desires or fantasies, and stuff like that.” CharacterDesireFantasyLongingMythGreat ThingsFairyFairy Tale Author:Neil Jordan
“My path to poetry was slow and meandering. When I eventually found my way to graduate school at 29, making a life as a poet seemed like a bohemian fantasy. But maybe my zigzagging trajectory is just an excuse for tardiness, when fear is really the root of any reason I might give. My perfectionism and pace are certainly driven by fear that a poem is imperfect or incomplete. More significantly, my struggle to fully dedicate myself to poetry was a fear of failure.” GivingReasonSchoolFantasyStrugglePathPoetExcuseDrivenMy WayGraduatesImperfectFear Of FailureIncompletePerfectionismGraduate SchoolBohemianMy Struggle Author:Robin Beth Schaer
“When I was young, my knowledge of the literary world was a distorted tabloid sketch of dazzling fame, suffering genius, and tragic glamour. It was all very naïve. Of course, the only part of the stereotype that has proven true is the suffering and the starving. Now, my fantasy of scribbling poems in a tower is gone, but an anxiety about reviews, book sales, and awards has taken its place.” WorldBookSufferingFantasyTakenGeniusFameAnxietyTragicStereotypeGlamour Author:Robin Beth Schaer
“Much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum. To oppose them, to suggest that one category excludes the other, always feels bogus to me. The great Leonard Michaels line is "I wanted proximity to darkness, strangeness"? That's what I'd say I want from a book, regardless of where it falls on the fantastical spectrum - that suspense connected to a particular human character, rather than just some mechanized plot.” ThinkingBookCharacterFallDecisionDarknessFantasyMarketing Author:Karen Russell
“If you're going to go into the movie business it is so full of heartbreak and you get so close and it doesn't happen and then once in a while it works out and it is the fantasy, like it is that dream. So riding the highs and lows of it you got to have an iron constitution and you got to be able to do what David Dinkins actually one said - "Well you know some days are good, some days are bad, but anytime there is a bad day I know the next day is going to be good and vice versa, so you just can't put too much stock in that moment."” MomentsDreamFantasyConstitutionWork OutBe GoodBad DayMovie Business Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“Everybody I knew who was really ambitious and kind of annoying wanted to move to New York. I like it here but that has nothing to do with the fantasy image that goes along with it. You have so many people complaining, "It's not how it used to be." If you look for specific things and you don't find them anymore, that's disappointing. But that's just your disappointment, it has nothing to do with the city. I think it's a nice place-harsh at times, and so on, but beautiful nonetheless.” PeopleThinkingKindBeautifulMovingFantasyNiceDisappointmentComplainingAnnoyingAmbitiousDisappointing Author:Urs Fischer
“I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.” Fantasy Author:Urs Fischer
“Sure, kids want to read whatever is the hot book, and of course they want to read fantasy and any kind of speculative fiction, but they also like to read stories with kids that look just like them, that have the same problems as them. And I've noticed that what they particularly want to see is to see those characters prevail. So they don't want sanitized situations. They want stories to be raw, they want them to be gritty, but they also do want to see the hope at the end of the story.” KindBookCharacterProblemKidsSituationFantasyHot Author:Sofia Quintero
“Another sex worker and writer I respect put it this way: she said that as a writer, you're not about pleasing people, and as a sex worker it's all about pleasing people. It's all about creating this fantasy. I still feel like as a writer you actually do have put on a show. You can't just hand over your notes. And there is a degree to which you are appealing to the reader's vanity, whether you tell yourself you're doing that or not.” PeopleFantasyOver You Author:Melissa Gira Grant
“When I was young, I couldn't think about ballet because I had to focus on my own field. But once you secure your own performance area, you can indulge yourself in different territories. Fashion is one. And ballet is absolutely a fantasy, because it deals with the bodies in a different way.” ThinkingDifferentFantasyFocusFashionBalletIndulge Author:Marina Abramovic
“Anyone who has a simplistic idea about the Middle East, or about the conflict, doesn't get it - because there are no simple answers. And anyone who is messianic, in a right-wing way or a left-wing way, is wrong too. The way forward is a kind of cautious, commonsense approach - a cautious, humble hope. No fantasies.” KindSimpleFantasyConflictHumbleCautious Author:Ari Shavit
“Not even I, in my original Spanish, am necessarily obliged to make exact quotations. I can do that or not, I can play with that opportunity or not. This is my right, or poetic license, as someone who is building an artefact of fantasy - this implicit pact with the reader is my starting point.” OpportunityFantasyBuildingPoeticQuotationsPact Author:Agustin Fernandez Mallo
“There are so many times in my life when I wish I had the power to destroy anyone who would threaten or seek to humiliate the people I love. When you were a small, shy, awkward kid like me, and you saw and experienced some of the things I did and you can do nothing, you're going to gravitate to those comic books and fantasies where the nerd gets bit by a radioactive spider and can beat up the bad guys.” PeopleBookKidsGuyWishFantasyComicShyAwkwardComic BookNerdHumiliate Author:Bao Phi
“In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical.” WorldFantasyFansToughIntelligentCriticalSci FiDiscerning Author:Scott Bakula
“There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine.” PeopleWayLooksRealSeemsWould BeCertainLinesActingFantasyStyleFineCircumstancesReal LifeFreakUnbelievableUnbelievable Things Author:Christian Bale
“To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.” CultureAbilityFantasyAudienceYouthLateCapacityMusicalSymbolsImmortalityLinksSixtyPopularityRemindersArtifactsYouth CultureMusical Ability Author:Jon Landau
“Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.” MenWhiteFantasyHorseSexyVampireParadiseSweepingGhoulsWhite Horse Author:Frank Langella
“The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.” WorldDreamRunningAmericaFantasyCarGasNightmareOver ItVietnamAmerican DreamSuppliesAssassinationWatergateKennedy Assassination Author:J. G. Ballard
“When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.” WatchesFantasyGrowing UpGrowingMusic LoveI Love Music Author:Queen Latifah
“I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way on the details that are not at all at the centre of the work.” PeopleWaySeemsTalkingFantasyFocusAvoiding Author:Daniel Day-Lewis
“The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.” PeopleRealImaginationPleasurePoorPovertyFantasyModelsDrawingPoor PeopleReal Things Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right.” I CanBookPastFantasyWalkingFingersBlankClicksBookshops Author:John Banville
“I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy. At home, do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.” HomeMightCertainFantasyNiceHairDressesMakeupHair And Makeup Author:Jennifer Lopez
“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.” PeopleIfsWould BeLiteratureInspiringFantasyAlivePersonalityDiversitySocial JusticeBeing YourselfBlack WomenBlack HistoryBlack Women InspirationalFemale WritersBlack MotivationalDefining Myself Author:Audre Lorde
“I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingFantasyFashionDesigner Author:Christian Louboutin
“I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most of the movies of that period never appealed to me. I didn't like the 'naturalism,' the sad or the 'down-to-earth' characters. What I wanted from film was fantasy, dreams, funny situations, extravagant decor - and beautiful women.” CharacterDreamWantedEarthBeautifulFilmBornSituationFantasyPeriodsParis1960sBeautiful WomenNaturalismExtravagantDown To EarthDecor Author:Christian Louboutin
“Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.” MenEarthHeavenFantasyAngelCloudsAnother ManHarps Author:John Lydon
“Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.” LoveMayLittlesLastsRomanceLyingPassionFantasyDearLiarsGreat PassionLittle Love Author:Anna Magnani
“Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.” ThinkingBookCountryProblemRealityFantasyComedyViolenceLandComicOther CountriesComic BookInfantileAmerican Movie Author:Bill Maher
“An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly.” MenHumansFallHuman BeingsMistakeFantasyKingsAssumingAwfulDecentGood ManGood Kings Author:George R. R. Martin
“I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.” TwoFictionFantasyBirthSkinsHistoricalGenreHistorical Fiction Author:George R. R. Martin
“I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.” LongHas BeensCharacterFantasyHeroFocusedVillainGreyHeroes And Villains Author:George R. R. Martin
“There is magic in my universe, but it's pretty low magic compared to other fantasies.” UniverseFantasyMagicLows Author:George R. R. Martin
“Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.” ReasonKidsFantasyTelevisionGenre Author:George R. R. Martin