When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list for the LA concert. – Nobuo Uematsu
You know, I wanted to get married, and so I – but I, you know, I realize no matter what you want, it’s kind of a fantasy. – Nellie McKay
I read a lot of the ‘Pern books’ growing up – basically up through ‘All the Weyrs of Pern,’ maybe a couple after that. As far as formative dragon influences are concerned, she’s probably one of the top ones; I know I read other fantasy novels that had them, but none particularly stick in mind. – Marie Brennan
Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy. – Grace Jones
I am sensual and very physical. I’m very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level. – Donna Summer
If anything, ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy. – Meghan Daum
When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance. – Diane von Furstenberg
The city of Paris is determined to promote the happiness-on-a-bike fantasy. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to turn the city into the most bike-friendly capital in the world. – Elaine Sciolino
My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy – like high fantasy – and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as a child. I still have a soft spot for that one! – Marie Lu
I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can’t really do much with those in a fantasy setting. – Elizabeth Moon
I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk. – Gail Carriger
So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing. – Chris Roberson
We don’t make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic – and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy? – Edith Head
Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid. – Garth Risk Hallberg
People don’t want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. – Paul Mooney
I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies. – Nicolas Cage
I love my sci-fi. I love my fantasy. Yeah! I can say it. I’m a geek. I’m a geek and I’m a proud geek! – Erica Cerra
If you go all the way back, I’ve always written science-fiction, I’ve always written fantasy, I’ve always written horror stories and monster stories, right from the beginning of my career. I’ve always moved back and forth between the genres. I don’t really recognise that there’s a significant difference between them in some senses. – George R. R. Martin
My idea of a good fantasy is something that’s absolutely grounded in reality. And there’s a little element that doesn’t belong there – and that’s the fantasy element – that you have to react to and deal with in a completely real way. – Melissa Mathison