Alice Munro Quotes

I will always have a soft spot for 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon,' which I discovered just at the age when I was beginning to enjoy the darkness in fairy tales but still wanted a story where the good guys win.

We all love a bit of 'true love conquers all,' and when I started on 'Poison,' 'Charm' and 'Beauty,' that was one rule of the fairy tale formula that I didn't want to break.

Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

In Russia, I pretend to be a lot of princesses and wait for prince. That was my dream.

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

Fairy-tales are nice.

I like fiction. I love all sorts of love stories, I think. I even watched '17 Again.'

I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something resembling a happily ever after. I am supposed to be above such flights of fantasy, but I am not. I am enamored of fairy tales.

I love fairy tale retellings and mash-ups.

I love fairy tales.

I've always loved fairy tales and magic - especially twisting them on their ears and poor trolls have always had such a bad rep.

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

I've always liked fairy tale and spectacle. I wouldn't say I was a fantasy fan, but anything beyond reality I've always found exciting - the work of David Lynch, the work of Tim Burton. But for me, I also love those things that are absolutely about human relationships.

Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism.

I think we love the escapism of something like 'Cinderella,' and I think we do with 'Thor.'

Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.

What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren't real, with falling stars and pirates. But what you do relate to is the emotions that the characters feel.

'Twilight' is a breathlessly addictive read with a love story that sucks people in.

Don't you love it that Prince doesn't use Twitter? Don't you think he's somewhere on a unicorn?

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfume, cars, etc., is a short fairy tale, for they are given magical qualities.