When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that’s a fantasy. – Alan Hansen
There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration. – Boris Vallejo
I wasn’t cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era. – Andy Grove
When I read the ‘Twilight’ book, I didn’t see it as fantasy. I saw it as a love story. – Catherine Hardwicke
The valley we lived in could easily be the setting for a fantasy novel or a prairie western novel. It could be anything. – Arthur Slade
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all. – Alan Dean Foster
The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you’re dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that’s a concern no matter what kind of movie you’re dealing with. – Adam Arkin
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. – Francisco Goya
We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry out complex technologies on a huge scale with total perfection. – Donella Meadows
Any Arthurian enthusiast who has watched ‘Merlin’ has probably concluded that it’s not accurate whatsoever – but, it’s not meant to be. It’s not meant to be a true telling. It’s in a fantasy setting, it’s really concentrating on the fantasy element. – Colin Morgan
‘Kraken’ is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it’s more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It’s London as a kind of fantasy kingdom. – China Mieville
I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs. – Gary Numan
If you look at any ancient civilization, they’ve all used fantasy stories to train the young. – David Gemmell
I’m a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy – not so much horror because I get a bit scared. – Michael Sheen
Guy Gavriel Kay’s ‘Tigana’ is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best fantasy novel ever written. It’s beautifully written, the characters are unforgettable, the worldbuilding is exquisite. – David B. Coe
All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I’ve gone off the top, into total fantasy. – Eddie Campbell
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. – Elizabeth Moon
Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because for directors it’s the purest way to tell a story. It’s about creating images that tell a story and you don’t need dialogue for that. – Michel Hazanavicius
With the possible exception of steampunk aficionados, many reasonable people must view my fascination with Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction – mysteries, fantasy, and adventure – as eccentric or merely antiquarian. – Michael Dirda
I’ve found that using historical material and being rooted in historical material is liberating because I always think to myself, ‘Well, this actually happened, and this is fantastic!’ That’s why I don’t like fantasy, in a way. Because it’s sort of in emptiness. – Michael Hirst
Daily fantasy sports is much closer to online poker than it is to traditional fantasy sports. – Eric Schneiderman