Michio Kaku Quotes

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.

There can be no dragon slayer in the absence of dragons.

Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're telling.

My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.

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

What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.

'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.

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.

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

I do like fantasy films.

My interest in fantasy began pretty much when I started to read.

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

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

'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Alice in Wonderland' inspired me. I wanted to take those themes and try to bring it into a more 21st story with aliens.

Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

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

I am attracted to myths.

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

I like fantasy.

I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

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've always been a huge fantasy fan. I was always interested in fairy tales and anything with magic or dragons... I was always drawn to those types of stories.

There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.