Peter Capaldi Quotes

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.

When I was a kid, I really got into monsters.

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and more the stuff of fairy tales. Fairy tales are as ancient as we are. I love those stories. I think they're really interesting because they always have more than simply the fright aspect. There's something deeply psychological.

I am attracted to myths.

When I wrote 'The Good Fairies of New York,' I wasn't really imagining that there were fairies. Not in the way that I'm really imagining there are werewolves.

I love monsters.

Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore.

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

I love writing about monsters and food.

I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.

I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

We actually say in 'Nightbreed,' 'God is an astronaut, Oz is over the rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters go.' There's a lovely sense in which there's a simple thesis being played out here. These are things you understand as a child out on the play yard.

I need to be believe that dragons are real. I want them be a real thing.

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 am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.

Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.

Magic is at the core of myths.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.

Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films and books on a spectacular industrial scale.

No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.

To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.