Jamie Campbell Bower Quotes

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.

Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.

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

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

Storytelling is the important thing.

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.

I am attracted to myths.

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.

I loved all the world's mythologies.

I've always been fascinated by mythology or, in modern parlance, by X-Men or vampires.

I just love rolling up my sleeves and doing research, and I especially love doing research on the origins of folklore and the origins of mythology.

I think horror or science fiction is another way of telling a modern myth - it's like Ancient Greece; it's like kids couldn't wait for the next 'Orpheus' story, the next 'Jason and the Argonauts.'

Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.

Magic is at the core of myths.

There was a time when fire and story would fall asleep in unison. It was dream time.

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

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

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.