Kenneth Branagh Quotes

For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

Magic is at the core of myths.

I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

I never imagined myself in a movie with magic.

After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.

A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And you will believe that it really happened. That's magic, isn't it?

A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.

Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.

This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.

… a fairyland to us, for all intents and purposes—a land of enchantment and awful mystery.

I believe that a world that doesn't have some kind of magic in it wouldn't be worth living in.

I had heard stories about witches flying on a broom as a kid and I would always think, wow, they had their own private jet.

Anything that has a dragon, a wand, pixie dust, fairies, magic, any of that, I love it. I'm obsessed with it, I will read it, I will watch it, I will commit it to memory.

I always loved magic and fantasy/adventure series as a kid.

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.

Magic is my paint.