Lauren Shuler Donner Quotes

Who could not return from a visit to Jack Vance's world, without feeling that he had been somewhere unique, that he had experienced things unavailable in our mundane world?

Between the worlds of men and make believe I can be found.

Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.

I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time.

Enjoy a 'world' where the fantastic is fact and magic really works!

How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.

A world like that, which exists only because the gods enjoy a joke, must be a place where magic can survive. And sex too, of course.

I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.

There is nothing "useful" about fashion, which is why it is fashion and not clothes. My personal opinion about the runway is that it should be used to whisk the audience off to a fantasy world that is possible, but not probably. It should delight and inspire.

Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.

The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.

I hate to recreate the whole world into my imagination.

Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.

A god's relationship to the world, even a world in which he was walking, was about as emotionally connected as that of a computer gamer playing with knowledge of the overall shape of the game and armed with a complete set of cheat codes.

There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things.

It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.

Being on set and seeing all that green screen, and how it activated my imagination, was amazing to me. I fell into that world very easily, and it was incredible to be a part of.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us--a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It's there with us as we live.

We're living in such a fantasy world where nothing makes sense anymore.

Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.

Most of the characters I play are heavily engulfed in some sort of fantasy world.

This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

That's what I like about watching a movie: you enter an imagined world that's more interesting, more engaging than your own. Or less painful than your own.