Genevieve Valentine Quotes

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

I love fairy tales.

There is a child in every man, and that's why larger-than-life stories which have a fairly tale component will work.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.

Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced I would grow up to be a princess.

I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

If you go back to, say, the Brothers Grimm or Roald Dahl, you see so much darkness in children's material.

Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

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

The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they're almost always nice people to bump into.

As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids. The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

Fairy-tales are nice.

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.

I've always loved fantasy books. Even just growing up, I've always kind of loved magic and fantasy.

When we were kids, I know when I saw 'Pinocchio' it had a huge impact. I was ten years old, and I went home, and I was drawing the characters.

Fairy tales were great because they provided a no-limits playground for my imagination, and growing up, there's nothing more exciting.

It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.

You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.

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.