Nicolas Cage Quotes

I think horror or science fiction is another way of telling a modern myth - it's like Ancient Greece; it's like kids couldn't wait for the next 'Orpheus' story, the next 'Jason and the Argonauts.'

I am attracted to myths.

I used to like Norse mythology, Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology. All mythology!

Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.

I loved all the world's mythologies.

I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.

I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

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

I love reading all the mythological stories. I was brought up on them.

I was interested in dark subject matter for sure, including folklore, fairy tales, mythology, archetypal stories of people going into the bowels of the forest.

Magic is at the core of myths.

Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

The fantasy genre has so far rather embraced me, and I'm incredibly grateful for that.

In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.

I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and more the stuff of fairy tales. Fairy tales are as ancient as we are. I love those stories. I think they're really interesting because they always have more than simply the fright aspect. There's something deeply psychological.

To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.

I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done.

I like mythology - anything historical.

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

Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.

I love the stories of changelings and the thought that the Fey were these ancient, capricious creatures who were tricky and dangerous. I've always preferred the Brothers Grimm faery tales to the Disney fairy tales.

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.