Timothy Spall Quotes

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

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

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?

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.

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

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.

I love to live in a magical place.

A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.

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.

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

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.

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

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

I never imagined myself in a movie with magic.

I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.

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

It's almost like my life is a fairytale.