“Every character lives in ever actor and if you're doing your job right, you're just accessing that part of your fantasy life. I can kill someone just as quickly as I can have sex with someone. You can switch that instinct, no matter what - you can pretend anything.” IfsI CanMatterCharacterJobsActorsSexFantasyNo Matter WhatInstinctFantasy Life Author:Matthew Lillard
“I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.” ThinkingWorldImportantCharacterFantasyTechniqueGroundedRelatableGreat CharacterFantasy Worlds Author:Timur Bekmambetov
“I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and I really don't think about these things when I'm writing. I'm just thinking about telling a story and developing my characters.” ThinkingWritingMeanCharacterStoriesFictionFantasyMaterialsPeriodsScience FictionDevelopingNovelistsScience Fiction And Fantasy Author:Roger Zelazny
“ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters.” CharacterFantasyGenreEpicSweepingStorylinePersonal CharacterBen Hur Author:Kevin J. Anderson
“It's one thing to be sitting at a drawing board, alone in your home and coming up with a fantasy character, and drawing her whichever way you feel like drawing, then dealing with a real performer. All of a sudden, things change. It's amazing, in working with actors, how much I learn from them and how many new lines will come to mind because of their personality or their strengths.” WayFeelsMindRealCharacterHomeActorsLinesFantasyOne ThingPersonalitySittingDrawingBoardsPerformersThings Change Author:Frank Miller
“There is nothing I can't do writing in Fantasy. I can have romance, I can have mystery, I can have drama, I can have good characters - I can have everything you can do in any other genre... plus a dragon.” WritingI CanCharacterRomanceCan DoFantasyMysteryDramaGenreDragonsPlusGood Character Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume without the tedium of labor. Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due ... and we wonder why we're a debtor nation!” PeopleWorldCharacterRealityNationsSocialWonderFantasySpecialConditionsOffersClothesLaborBillsDuesMovieCharmFloatsVirtual RealityTediumDebtorsSocial Conditions Author:Molly Haskell
“I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers.” CharacterStoriesFictionFantasyScience FictionTeenagerScience Fiction And Fantasy Author:Ruth Glick
“There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you’re involved in, whether it’s a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.” CharacterValuesGamesWinningSecretFantasyInvolvedLosingWestGenreWin Or LoseWild WestImagining YourselfWild Wild West Author:Gary Gygax
“I base the roles I choose depending on the characters. That's just how I'm gonna run my career. So if it's a good role I'm gonna take it whether it be fantasy, or whether it be realistic or fiction, anything.” IfsCharacterRunningFictionCareersRolesFantasyRealistic Author:Josh Hutcherson
“What I think after reading the script and seeing where the story goes, I go with my instincts on the character. If my instincts are wrong the director and the producers will guide me in the right direction. That's just kind of how I take on any role, be it a fantasy movie or not.” IfsThinkingKindCharacterStoriesReadingRolesFantasySeeingDirectorsInstinctScriptsGuidesProducersRight DirectionGuide Me Author:Josh Hutcherson
“The thing to me that's fun is trying to make the characters seem believable, or realistic. And it's especially challenging when you're doing fantasy stories, when you're doing superhero types of things.” TryingCharacterStoriesSeemsFunChallengesFantasyTypeRealisticSuperheroBelievableFantasy Stories Author:Stan Lee
“I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a travellers perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some point, and they have many of the same needs and concerns covered in travel guides.” WorldNeedsStillsEndsCharacterReadingFantasyPerspectiveConcernInsightGuidesCoveredTravellerFantasy Worlds Author:Trudi Canavan
“The Cloud Roads has wildly original worldbuilding, diverse and engaging characters, and a thrilling adventure plot. It's that rarest of fantasies: fresh and surprising, with a story that doesn't go where ten thousand others have gone before. I can't wait for my next chance to visit the Three Worlds!” WorldI CanCharacterStoriesThreeNextWaitingChanceFantasyGoneAdventureThousandTenOriginalsCloudsPlotSurprisingDiverseEngagingThrilling Author:N.K. Jemisin
“Guy Gavriel Kays Tigana is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. Its beautifully written, the characters are unforgettable, the worldbuilding is exquisite.” IfsCharacterGuyOpinionFantasyNovelWrittenExquisiteUnforgettableFantasy Novels Author:David B. Coe
“When I started experimenting with fantasy and horror films and looking for characters who had some sort of emotional or mental difficulty, I saw opportunities to express my music - dare I say art - in a way that I could get a bit surreal.” WayArtCharacterFilmOpportunityBitsFantasySawsEmotionalHorrorDifficultyDareScreamPopeSurrealHorror Film Author:Nicolas Cage
“Also, worldbuilding touches all aspects of your story. It touches plot and character as well. If you don't know the culture your character comes from, how can you know what he's really like? You must know your characters on a much deeper level than you would if you just shrugged your way into a cookie cutter fantasy world.” IfsKnowsWorldWayWellsCharacterStoriesCultureLevelsFantasyLike YouAspectDeeperPlotCookiesFantasy WorldsCuttersReally Like YouCookie Cutters Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“When you read a fantasy novel part of the fun is getting to explore a new world. Everyone knows that. But I believe the same is true about characters. You can explore interesting people in the same way that you explore a town or a culture.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayBelieveCharacterCultureFunI BelieveInterestingFantasyNovelTownsNew WorldFantasy Novels Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“I enjoy creating and developing characters, as well as situations. But I have always had more ideas than I can ever put down on paper and fantasy allows me to include a lot of what I feel.” FeelsWellsI CanIdeasCharacterEnjoySituationFantasyPaperCreatingDeveloping Author:Raymond Buckland
“In India we have a readymade world of fantasy available in Indian mythology. And this is why we see such a surfeit of characters drawn from mythology. I don't think it's because the present day humanity is soulless.” ThinkingWorldCharacterHumanityFantasyIndiaAvailableMythologyIndianPresent DaySoulless Author:Anita Nair
“I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters.” ThinkingWorldImportantCharacterScienceArtistFictionFantasyAspectScience FictionVisuals Author:Margaret Weis
“I want a script to affect me in some way. I am usually drawn to character studies, scripts about real people and the world we live in not some fantasy.” PeopleWorldWayWantRealCharacterFantasyStudyScripts Author:Roger Deakins
“All people live in a fantasy in which they are the main character.” PeopleCharacterFantasyMain Characters Author:Keiichi Sigsawa
“In a funny way, acting, to me, is all make-believe, even if the film has unicorns in it or is a normal movie that can be set in real-life time. I'm still imagining that I'm a different character, so it's all, in a funny way, like fantasy.” IfsWayBelieveStillsDifferentRealCharacterFilmActingFantasyNormalReal LifeUnicornMake BelieveDifferent CharactersLife Time Author:Elle Fanning
“When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.” WorldDifferentPlayCharacterFantasyInspireDifferent CharactersFantasy Worlds Author:Cary Elwes
“Most of the characters I play are heavily engulfed in some sort of fantasy world.” WorldPlayCharacterFantasyFantasy Worlds Author:Katee Sackhoff
“I've always just loved drawing and loved cartoons. Growing up, I loved Disney films, I loved The Simpsons, and I was a big fan of the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes and the way that they would have weird fantasy and then down-to-earth funny character comedy.” WayCharacterBigsEarthFilmFantasyGrowing UpComedyGrowingFansDrawingComicCartoonDown To EarthHobbesComic StripsFunny CharacterDisney Film Author:Alex Hirsch
“... my father loved to take photographs of me. When I was nine I made my own costumes for a school play and I experienced becoming different characters. I loved to document myself as different images and I think my work evolved after this favorite activity. The photographs I exhibited in New York juxtaposed reality and fantasy. There was everyday life and fantasy was dismantling that reality.” ThinkingMadeDifferentPlayCharacterRealitySchoolFatherMy OwnFantasyNew YorkBecomingActivityEverydayPhotographNineDocumentsEveryday LifeCostumesDifferent CharactersSchool Plays Author:Mariko Mori
“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.” PeopleCharacterFunFantasyMinesIntellectSuperiors Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I began wanting to create a detective who really turned the tables on that image of women, to know that you could have a sex life and not be a bad person. You could have a sex life and still solve your own problems. It was eight years from when I started having the fantasy that I was going to create such a detective to when I actually sat down and came up with V. I. Warshawski. It was a long, slow journey to come to a writing voice and do that character.” KnowsWritingYearsPersonsLongStillsCharacterProblemSexVoiceFantasyJourneyDown AndTablesEightSolveSatDetectivesWriting Voice Author:Sara Paretsky
“I grew up loving fantasy, adventure, and children's book series. At the time, I was in a place in LA where I wasn't working and I kind of thought to myself, "What do I really want to do? Like, what kind of role would be really exciting for me?" And I sort of thought about being in an adventurous, magical, fantastical world and a character that was powerful and sophisticated and perhaps even a dandy, that might have even passed in my head, and then I got an audition for the show ["The Magicians"] shortly after.” WorldWantKindChildrenBookCharacterShowsMightWould BePowerfulRolesFantasyAdventureGrewGrew UpExcitingSeriesSophisticatedAuditionsMagicianAdventurousChildren's BooksDandy Author:Hale Appleman
“Positively, he [Heidegger] shows that the prospect of death doesn't of itself destroy all possibilities of meaning but calls instead for these to be relocated from fantasies about a future post-mortem life. However, I don't think he does enough in this work to show that this relocation has - I believe - a primarily ethical character (in Levinas's sense of 'ethical').” ThinkingBelieveDoeEnoughCharacterShowsI BelieveFantasyPossibilityPostsEthicalPositivelyHeidegger Author:George Pattison
“When Peter Jackson did The Lord of the Rings trilogy with Fellowship of the Ring, not everyone had read Tolkien, and yet somehow with that scope and the spectacle of that fantasy, people were willing to give it a shot. And when they watched the first one, the characters drew them in and they started understanding the story. And then, all of a sudden, they were The Lord of the Rings fans, even if they never read Tolkien.” PeopleIfsGivingFirstsCharacterStoriesUnderstandingLordFantasyFansWillingShotsRingsPeterScopeFellowshipFellowship Of The RingTrilogies Author:Duncan Jones
“I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.” CharacterFictionFantasyMagicGood Character Author:David B. Coe
“I'd love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You're treading on very thin ice.” ThinkingShouldCharacterFilmLeftFantasyIceClassicLeft AloneNoirTreadingMcqueenClassic Films Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“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
“A comic book is the opposite of a cartoon. In a cartoon, you want to simplify the idea, so when they look at it at a glance, they get it. Boom. Simple. Direct to the point. But when you're drawing Groo, now it's a narrative, a story. You want the viewer to get involved in the story. You want him to feel like he's in the town to follow your main character. So I love to add lots and lots of things in it. Things that people will enjoy going back to and say, "Oh yeah, that's how a market must have looked in this fantasy world, with people selling meat here and dishes here."” PeopleWorldWantFeelsLooksBookIdeasCharacterStoriesEnjoySimpleFantasyInvolvedDirectOppositesTownsYeahAddDrawingSellingComicNarrativeMeatDishesComic BookCartoonViewersGlancesGet InvolvedSimplifyWant HimMain CharactersFantasy Worlds Author:Sergio Aragones
“It's important for the character, over the course of six years, to have checked off all the different boxes of the things that Mindy Kaling is trying to learn about herself to see what she wants. Which are the things that she's dreamed of since she was a kid that will ultimately be still important to her as a fully integrated adult and which ones are maybe just fantasies.” TryingImportantDifferentCharacterKidsFantasyIntegrated Author:Matt Warburton
“Many people are under the delusion that I'm just a special-effects man, but I've worn many different hats in my day. On every film I've been involved in, I worked with the writer and producer. We really formulated those scripts. We tried to make films that were logical but still had the fantasy feel of it. I enjoy Aardman Animation's films with Wallace and Gromit, but they're obvious puppet films, whereas we tried to disguise it and make our effects characters in the films rather than obvious puppets.” PeopleMenDifferentCharacterFilmEnjoyFantasyObviousProducersDelusionLogicalDisguise Author:Ray Harryhausen
“I love fantasy. I love thrillers. I love action. I'm all over the place. As long as the story and characters are good, I'll love it.” LongCharacterActionFantasy Author:Julianne Hough
“I feel like I've finally got to this place that I really want to be. The place where, in my fantasy, the characters just get up and walk around - this interstitial place between humans and dolls. But I also feel like, where am I supposed to go from here? Because this feels like the place I've always wanted to be, for my whole life of shooting.” CharacterFantasyWhole Life Author:Laurie Simmons
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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