With fantasy and sci-fi, it’s based in a real fandom. You’re presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them. They’ll come up and ask: ‘so when you turned your head slightly in that scene, what were you thinking?’ – Lena Headey
Drama is my sweet spot, but the thing about being an actor is that you want to do a variety of things. I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project. – Lupita Nyong’o
I have always loved fantasy; I think probably stepping through the wardrobe with Lucy in C.S. Lewis’s ‘Narnia Chronicles’ was my first exposure when I was really little. – Jacqueline Carey
I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They’re fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It’s an odd mix of fantasy and reality. – Jonathan Stroud
When I started really writing fantasy, one of the things I noticed was a real absence of sexuality in the genre at all. And it’s such a profound part of the human experience that it’s a really big thing to leave out. – Jacqueline Carey
I always gravitated a bit towards more of the fantasy, and ‘Lost Girl’ really fits in with that. – Kris Holden-Ried
I’m going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It’s like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he’s stuck – in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go. – Mal Peet
I have always had this secret fantasy of being a Bourne girl or Bond girl, and I’ve never even gotten called in on one of those roles. – Katie Aselton
I live in a fantasy world where I think I’m immune to all disease. I don’t get sick and haven’t had anything major go wrong. – Jesse Spencer
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. – Manolo Blahnik
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. – Manuel Puig
The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism. – Lady Gaga
I read a lot of fantasy as a kid. I read ‘The Hobbit’ and all of the ‘Lord of the Rings’ books, but I also read a lot of realism like ‘The Outsiders.’ – Lisa Papademetriou
One of my teachers says the sound you hear in the center of the universe is laughter. I don’t know if it’s true, but if you do something and 30 years later it still produces laughter, that’s a fantasy you can’t make up. – Joyce DeWitt
Growing up in the ’70s and ’80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things. – Lev Grossman
I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them. – Lana Parrilla
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy. – Lois Lowry
I’m passionate about fantasy movies. I’m passionate about comic book movies. I’m passionate about superheroes. And movies about vengeance. And all of that – the stuff that I grew up reading. – Josh Keaton
People fantasize about being a hero and helping someone in trouble. Batman is that fantasy realized – not just for Bruce Wayne, but for the audience. – Kevin Conroy
I have an affinity for good roles in good films. I like a variety of parts, and if some of the good stuff happens to be in fantasy and horror, I do them. – Jeff Fahey
