Fantastical Worlds Quotes

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

My dreams are like fuzzy Charlie Kaufman movies, so I love going to sleep.

I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.

Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.

I wanted to be in 'Star Wars' when I was six years old. I asked my mom for two years, and she told me I was crazy.

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

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality. The more fantastical characters, or fantastical worlds that they inhabit are really fun and allow you, in some ways, to tell stories and reveal things about our lives that would be harder to take, in a more realistic setting.

There are many films and TV shows I make where people find themselves in fantastical situations; as often as possible, their reactions to it are very normal.

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.

Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream.

It's amazing how many things you can do when you're just pretending.

I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

I'm the kid who wanted to grow up and be Bugs Bunny. I was very, very disappointed when I realized I couldn't grow up and be a cartoon character.

My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.

Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.

I've always been interested in invisible worlds, and I like to visit digital worlds, you know, any world that's imposed on us.

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

I was the kind of kid who was always making up stories and adventures.