Kevin Feige Quotes

Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, building layer upon layer, including all kinds of sweet and sour in the mix.

I loved fantasy role play.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.

I loved the world of imagination.

There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

Take it from me: I really love making things up, which is why I write fiction for a living.

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people.

I don't have a problem with green screen at all. I think children invented CGI. We invent worlds. A stick can become a sword. Or a bowl of stones can become a bowl of tomatoes. That's what children do, and that's what CGI enables us to do.

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

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters.

I think it's also safe to say genre TV and movies were a big influence - the first stories I ever tried to write were Godzilla fan fiction when I was in elementary school, complete with elaborate maps of Monster Island made with multiple sheets of typing paper and nearly six feet wide. I kind of wish I still had those.

It's great to be able to work on some science fiction. I love the genre.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's a danger of science fiction in particular, as opposed to fantasy. A lot of writers forget that what they're doing is supposed to be art.

I love anything that really pushes the envelope as far as where it takes your mind. When it's well written and brings you into a world that possibly could be, I think that's the most entertaining for me - to see something that could actually take place and causes you to think.

When you're a writer and you're an adult, that's something you crave - that limitless imagination and love for worlds that don't exist that you can create.