Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes

What I realized is that the desire for making 'Places' came from the fact that I've got this strange situation with having been born in the glitter, born on the other side of the mirror that everyone fantasizes about.

I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.

If I had my own Neverland it would probably be the coolest place in the world. You could do anything you want there. There would be trees everywhere.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.

I like America. I think it's pretty cool. I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.

I love to live in a magical place.

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.

You can't have the word 'fantasy' or 'fantastical' without a contrast. It has to stem from a grounded experience.

If you're living in a dystopia, you don't necessarily want to look at another one.

Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock.

Fantasy is the only truth.

For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.

My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily - artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into.

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language.

A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.

Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

We dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it is playing — kill us, And we are playing — shriek — What harm? Men die — externally — It is a truth — of Blood — But we — are dying in Drama — And Drama — is never dead — Cautious — We jar each other — And either — open the eyes — Lest the Phantasm — prove the Mistake — And the livid Surprise Cool us to Shafts of Granite — With just an Age — and Name — And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian — It's prudenter — to dream —

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Better to dream than to be.

Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.

So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.