Jean-Marc Vallee Quotes

One of the things I've discovered at my age is I must have enchantment. And that was not clear to me in my earlier years. When I look at my favorite films, the Frank Capra - even Scorsese, even 'Goodfellas,' what makes that movie so remarkable is there's enchantment in their world.

I never imagined myself in a movie with magic.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

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?

Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore.

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.

I believe that a world that doesn't have some kind of magic in it wouldn't be worth living in.

I love whimsical things and forests. I'm really into all that.

I have always believed in magic. I used to run into the woods as a little kid looking for witches. But I'm not superstitious, because I m not afraid of it. I see it as something really beautiful, and I wouldn't want to live in a world without magic.

I always loved magic and fantasy/adventure series as a kid.

Witches were part of my imaginary childhood playground, so I wanted to make an archetypal fairytale about the mythic idea of what New England was to me as a kid.

I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.

People ask me, 'Why angels? Why paranormal? Why teens?' In the beginning, I'm not sure I knew I was starting down any of those twisted paths - paths that now seem so familiar to me that they are downright comforting. In the beginning, I was just writing about love.

For me, fantasy and speculative science fiction are the genres that feel closest to how I feel about being alive. Like, when I feel the most invigorated by just even a walk down the block in twilight, when the street lamps are just coming on and there's mist and some shadowy thing in silhouette in a window, I naturally invest all of those things with deep mythology and mystery and meaning. I think I need to believe in that version of reality because I get very scared when I don't.

I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

Magic is at the core of myths.

I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.