Demetri Martin Quotes

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment.

I love anything that's sort of surreal and with fantasy.

'Avatar' was incredible and totally groundbreaking, but it wasn't about utter realism. It had a great mythic fantasy to it, but the characters don't seem totally photo-real, as amazing as they are.

I have been wandering with Alice in Wonderland and been having tea with the Mad Hatter.

The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.

We're always aiming for storytelling that feels a bit surreal.

I just like magical, fantastical stuff. I don't really see it as surreal when I'm writing. It's just, I write, and then I have an idea, and usually, they're quite odd.

As to the thoughts, they are elfish. Those eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream.

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

I don't want realism. I want magic!

At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.

There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.

Even my nighttime dreams are very, very rooted in reality. They just start to become surreal, little by little.

I dreamed I was buying new shoes last night," said Ron. "What d'ya think that's gonna mean?" "Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something," said Harry.

We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.

After a few minutes, he asked, real quietly, if you turned into an animal, too. And I said, ‘She wishes she was that cool!

I had a dream about a motorcycle," said Harry, remembering suddenly. "It was flying." Uncle Vernon nearly crashed into the car in front. He turned right around in his seat and yelled at Harry, his face like a gigantic beet with a mustache: "MOTORCYCLES DON'T FLY!" Dudley and Piers sniggered. "I know they don't," said Harry. "It was only a dream.

Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?

Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.

A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.