But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they’re in a dire situation or comedic situation. – Fisher Stevens
Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way. – D. B. Weiss
‘Avatar’ was incredible and totally groundbreaking, but it wasn’t about utter realism. It had a great mythic fantasy to it, but the characters don’t seem totally photo-real, as amazing as they are. – Matt Reeves
One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we’re in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. – Penn Jillette
Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience – to see something that’s not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it’s like their lives. – Erika Slezak
As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores put them into romance, and few have stuck them into horror. I consider all my books a mix of steampunk and urban fantasy. – Gail Carriger
The Company of Wolves doesn’t belong in any category, so it’s difficult to prepare an audience for it. It’s not a horror film, it’s not a fantasy film, it’s not a children’s film – so what is it? – Neil Jordan
I don’t really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn’t seem strange. And I guess that’s their privilege. It isn’t mine. – N. K. Jemisin
The vast majority of fantasy football fans, myself included, revel in the absurdity of it all. – Max Handelman
I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. – George R. R. Martin
I’ve read every single fantasy novel there is. I mean, I would challenge a lot of people to read more fantasy novels than I have. – Felicia Day
‘Temeraire’ is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love – fantasy and historical epic. – Peter Jackson
I got a crash-course education in urban fantasy. I suddenly had to look up all these other writers I was supposed to be in a genre with. I instantly had to become an expert in this genre I knew almost nothing about. – Carrie Vaughn
It seems to me that humour is everybody’s way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don’t know whether you’ve noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it’s nearly always a mini fantasy. – Diana Wynne Jones
I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. – Dario Argento
There’s a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. – Fred Saberhagen
‘Game of Thrones’ has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it’s complete fantasy. – Caitriona Balfe
I didn’t plan to write YA – I had a story that simply wasn’t working as a straight-up fantasy novel. – Carrie Vaughn
It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse. – Mike Lee
I have an airplane hangar with 17 cars in it. That’s no joke. I have a ‘half pipe’ in there, too – you know, like a big ramp, where I skateboard. It’s awesome. It’s the ultimate fantasy. – Paul Walker
Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment? – Franz Schubert
I like ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Game of Thrones.’ I like that era. I like that fantasy world. – Navid Negahban
My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It’s so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins. – Debra Messing
When I was a teenager, what I most wanted to read were fantasy novels. Not Tolkien and Malory, but sword-and-sorcery pulp. I craved glowy blue magic, chainmail bikinis, dragons with unpronounceable names. – Eliot Schrefer
I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I’ve noticed over the years that there doesn’t tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff. – Gail Carriger
In fantasy, you have licence to pick whatever you like out of history and fantasy, and you don’t have to be accurate. – Cecilia Dart-Thornton
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. – Edward Albee
You can’t have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing, adulthood looks like a constant parade of every desire’s satisfaction. It is a heady and terrifying place. It is the Otherworld. It is Fairyland. In fantasy, we make this literal. – Catherynne M. Valente