Peggy Lipton 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.

I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

We all like going to the dark side of things; we all like dipping into worlds that we don't know anything about, or hopefully don't know anything about. I think 'Banshee' gives people a chance to do that pretty safely because we all know there's a solid buffer between the show and reality.

I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.

I definitely think my work comes from things that I liked as a kid, and things I still like now. Monsters and magic and museums and movies, a lot of things that start with 'M' for some reason.

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

'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it.

Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.

It's really surreal to be in something under the 'Goosebumps' title.

Bond is fantasy.

I think fantasy thrillers excite audiences as, inherently, people have a fascination for the unknown and the unexplained.

I think that's what 'Stranger Things' does, it opens you up - it has a real beating heart to it.

As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you're a young kid, you get attached to these characters.

People want to be entertained when they watch dramas. 'Mistresses' has a mixture of escapism and reality.

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.

Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're telling.

I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.

When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to make books that made other people feel the same way.

For a human audience, seeing things that are slightly more otherworldly and beyond human power is always really fun and exciting to watch.

Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.

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.