Imaginary Realms Quotes

Beneath the Sugar Sky' is an homage to the portal fantasies of my childhood: it is the portal running in reverse.

'Lord of the Rings' was my jam. I was so depressed when I realized that I couldn't live in Middle-earth. And I was so sad when I was eleven and didn't get a letter from Hogwarts saying that I was going to be a wizard!

We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. Enchantment alters with age, and with the age. We know a dozen Arthurs now, all of them true. The Shire changed irrevocably even in Bilbo's lifetime. Don Quixote went riding out to Argentina and met Jorge Luis Borges there. Plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change.

If you're building a fantasy world that exists outside of the rules of our real world, why would you write it to conform to the rules and binaries that we have today? Why still limit yourself?

I don't quite operate within the realist mode. I kind of push the stories out towards the cusp of believability - that's the area of interest for me.

World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in.

I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.

Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.

If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.

Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.

I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.

I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm.