Anohni Quotes

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.

As a kid, the theatre always felt a bit like running away to join the circus.

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

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.

What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.

The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.

It is hard to go back into a world that has already been explored, so to speak. And the fans are very passionate about it, and you don't want to burst that bubble; you don't want to break that illusion. You want to get it right. You want it to feel familiar, but also surprising.

I remember going to the theatre when I was little and the lights going down and just getting really scared about what was going to happen up there.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

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?

Once I go on stage, the atmosphere is totally theatrical. The greater the illusion, the greater the intensity of the excitement it creates.

I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

The fantasy genre is so in at the moment. Viewers want to escape from their lives and watch something that is so separate from their everyday existence. People have always wanted to escape their lives - that's why they go to movies and the theatre.

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.

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

I feel the same magic about 'Angel Falls' that I did with 'Twin Peaks' and 'Mod Squad.'

Movies are magical. It transcends a lot of hate or human faults in real life because of the fantasy of it all.

And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows

We dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it is playing — kill us, And we are playing — shriek — What harm? Men die — externally — It is a truth — of Blood — But we — are dying in Drama — And Drama — is never dead — Cautious — We jar each other — And either — open the eyes — Lest the Phantasm — prove the Mistake — And the livid Surprise Cool us to Shafts of Granite — With just an Age — and Name — And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian — It's prudenter — to dream —

Magic is the cheat codes for the world.

Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.

My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.