As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.
All people live in a fantasy in which they are the main character.
I grew up watching classic animation, and I have always felt that the roots of animation is in fantasy and taking it in places that you can't go, any other way.
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.
Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.
I don't care for horror and fantasy films. I never go to see them in the theater. I know I've played in many of them, but I didn't do them because of their genre - I did them just because I loved their scripts.
The dreams get anchored in aged wisdom not some utopian fantasy.
All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.
It's people's worst fantasy to see their partner kissing someone else, even though it's a job and it's not real.
I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.
Guy Gavriel Kays Tigana is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. Its beautifully written, the characters are unforgettable, the worldbuilding is exquisite.
My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
I have the same fantasy every time I read a book I love, no matter who wrote it, no matter when it was written. That the author has written his book only for me.
When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.
Anyone who has a simplistic idea about the Middle East, or about the conflict, doesn't get it - because there are no simple answers. And anyone who is messianic, in a right-wing way or a left-wing way, is wrong too. The way forward is a kind of cautious, commonsense approach - a cautious, humble hope. No fantasies.
I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.
I think we need to make documentaries about fantasy and storytelling. I think I just started to scratch the surface of a method that allows us to do that. We want to be sucked into the events, suspend our disbelief and imagine that this is a fiction, but actually putting onscreen the gap between who the people are and who they want to be and therefore opening the question about why they want to be this person.
Dreams that are realistic, often come out of fantasies.
This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle.