Johann Georg Hamann Quotes

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism.

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

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.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so anyone who is consciously trying to pull that off I think is really interesting and clearly very smart.

I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

I'm only interested in science fiction that's used as a literary device, a shortcut into something more exploratory or universal about our experience. That's why I think it was invented and why mythology was invented; it's a tool, not an end to itself.

I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.

The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.