Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.
I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality.
But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.
First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream.
Can't get my head around sci-fi or fantasy. I'm not putting those genres down; it's just that I'm not built for them.
I didn't want to write a pure fantasy novel, though I love those and grew up on J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula LeGuin.
I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history.
I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.
My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed.
We're getting used to reality and fantasy passing into each other. Much of the border between them has been erased.
Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.
I hope the average woman feels she needs practicality but with a little bit of fantasy. Otherwise, it's just not fashion.
If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.
Everyone seems to be fleeing from the responsibilities that come from being who you are. I think that is why the blogosphere is thriving. It allows people to develop a fantasy self.
When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I heard him singing to himself without me, and when he tended the garden it was not for me. He was courteous and polite; he enjoyed being at home, but in the fantasy of his home I was not the one who sat opposite him and laughed at his jokes. He didn't want to change anything; he liked his life. The only thing he wanted to change was me.
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.
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'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.
I live in a fantasy world where I think I'm immune to all disease. I don't get sick and haven't had anything major go wrong.
A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.
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.
I am definitely interested in soundtracks that one might associate with fantasy or sci-fi - they tend to be rich with musical ideas.
I hope the average woman feels she needs practicality but with a little bit of fantasy. Otherwise it's just not fashion.
Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.
With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them.
The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.
I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism.
The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.
Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
Creating a future requires a profound and yes, unrealistic, vision of what is possible. But it is fantasy and wonder that drive technology and innovation.
I was always a sci-fi and fantasy geek. I was in the 'Lord of the Rings' club and all my cool friends made fun of me.
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
I was tall from minute one. Always the tallest kid by a large margin. And my fantasy was to take up less space in the world.
The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation.
I'm self-centered, inconsiderate, and what was the third adjective? Oh, yes, and I have this infantile fantasy that one day I'll amount to something as an actress.
Acting job can create a fantasy or stereotype for others. That's why we try not to show our personal lives so much.
Yes, if I wasn't a happily married man with three children, Emma Bunton would definitely be my hot-tub fantasy date.
My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.
We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes.
Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.
When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.
Fashion is such a fairytale and it is such a fantasy. And it's about metamorphosis and sort of changing yourself and playing a part that you want people to see.
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.
The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental.
I am a romantic. I want to cry when I throw out my Christmas tree, and I have a lot of feelings about magic and fantasy.
I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy. But, I think I look too jewish for the prairie.
As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
We all have some version of a fantasy that's easy to escape to, and we all want a real relationship where there's a common give-and-take and you're seen for who you are, and appreciated for that.
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
My ultimate fantasy is to entice a man to my bedroom, put a gun to his head and say, 'Make babies or die'.
It's very important to make the man believable so that you can stretch the fantasy. Whether people like this kind of Bond is another question.
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.
At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.
I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another.
The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.
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.
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