Morality Tales Quotes

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

I love 'The Twilight Zone,' the original black and white ones with Rod Serling's wee bit at the beginning.

God, people say 'Black Mirror' was horrible - it's nothing compared to the stuff that happens in 'Grimms' Fairy Tales.' It's mind-bending.

If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.

We have this thing as human beings: we have a profound need for story. That's what kids need.

I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.

The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children's literature didn't exist then. The idea of protecting children from tales with violence didn't occur until the earlier part of the 19th century.

I grew up on Disney movies and, as a kid, I always liked the villains.

I love watching 'Twilight Zone.' New Year's Eve they do the marathon; I watch it every year.

I must have seen the 'Twlight Zone' movie, like, a thousand times.

Reading fairytales to children expands their imaginations.

I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

When I was a kid, I watched a lot of 'Twilight Zone.' My mother was obsessed with the show, as it was a staple of her childhood - and thus she made it one of ours, too.

Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Treasure.' Written by Florence Parry Heide and illustrated by the great Edward Gorey, master of the gothic and the macabre, these books are small masterpieces.

I was always fascinated by the Torah, the Bible, in terms of story telling: heroes and villains, morality and flaws. There's no better epic. Also, being part Latin and Jewish means I have a sense of the theatrical. There were always a lot of people in my house. My home was always filled with a lot of storytellers.

'Trek' is probably more cerebral and philosophical. 'Stargate' does seat-of-the-pants adventure and humor better.

I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.

My daddy - whenever he wanted to teach us a lesson, he'd tell us a story. It's an Old South tradition.

Fairy tales cross generational lines, and how you respond to them depends on when in your life you're seeing them.

Dickens writes such brilliant characters and stories, and his themes and social commentary are still so relevant. I think that's why he's still so loved today.

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.

Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope.

If you read Grimm's fairy tales, they're absolutely terrifying.