Michael Gambon Quotes

Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.

I believe that a world that doesn't have some kind of magic in it wouldn't be worth living in.

In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.

When I was playing Gandalf, I didn't think, 'Oh my dear, I'm playing a 7,000 year old wizard,' because I've never met one, and I don't know what they're like.

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

I never imagined myself in a movie with magic.

After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And you will believe that it really happened. That's magic, isn't it?

Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end; there must be a sense of magic created about the most restrained of naturalism.

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.

For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.

This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.

… a fairyland to us, for all intents and purposes—a land of enchantment and awful mystery.

The supernatural is ubiquitous in children's entertainment, from Grimm and Hans Andersen to Disney and 'Harry Potter.'

I used to think that you'd open the door, and there was Narnia. Increasingly, I think it's all around us.

Anything that has a dragon, a wand, pixie dust, fairies, magic, any of that, I love it. I'm obsessed with it, I will read it, I will watch it, I will commit it to memory.

I always loved magic and fantasy/adventure series as a kid.

Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.

I don't want realism. I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!

Magic is at the core of myths.

I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.