Graham Swift Quotes

The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.

It's my job, to create a fantasy.

It's amazing to dwell in the world of fantasy and fear.

I actually enjoy the fantasy world quite a bit. You have no boundaries.

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.

He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.

When I was 35 I realized that I was still thinking a lot about what it would be like to go to Narnia. To really go - not just in a daydream, or in a children's book, but what it would actually feel like, physically, psychologically, every other way. The idea was haunting me.

I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time.

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality

Fantasy and reality often overlap.

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.

I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

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 have a lot of fantasy.

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 don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

As a kid, the theatre always felt a bit like running away to join the circus.

Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

Movies are magical. It transcends a lot of hate or human faults in real life because of the fantasy of it all.

I want to create a world where all the rules are different. It should be magical to enter.