A. N. Wilson Quotes

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

Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.

'Star Wars' is mythology. It's like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. It's the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.

Creating heroes and history are often at odds.

I wanted to be Samson or Hercules from the age of six.

Tales of heroes end in bliss.

Well I'm the Prince and I'm sort of slaying a dragon - which is something I've never done before, obviously.

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.

Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

I think storytelling is storytelling. It doesn't matter what format it's shot on.

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.

A tale in everything.

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

The gods need heroes. They always have.

Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.