Ashwin Sanghi Quotes

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

All culture must have arisen from cult.

I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously saying something appealing about the basic human condition.

India has a long tradition of reinterpreting religious myths.

Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own.

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

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

One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from.

Jack’s life had more to do with myth, legend, saga, and story than with political theory or political science.

Mythologies are violent things, and to be true to them, you have to go to primal territory.

I think the Christ-myth stories make great stories, whether it's 'The Matrix' or 'Braveheart,' they all are tapping into some kind of deep myth in our DNA, and by myth I don't necessarily mean false.

I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, who captured a lot of that very beautifully.

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.

Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.

The worlds of folklore and religion were so mingled in early twentieth venture German culture that even families who didn't go to church were often deeply Christian.

I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology.

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.

Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that's one of the pleasures of reading older collections of lore.

Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their true significance, they offered a truth beyond realities, a remembrance beyond memories.

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

The earliest storytellers were magi, seers, bards, griots, shamans. They were, it would seem, old as time, and as terrifying to gaze upon as the mysteries with which they wrestled .. (they) helped the community live though one more darkness, with eyes wide open, and with hearts set alight.

When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.