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I thought this was the most incredible opportunity. Because 'Planet Of The Apes,' aside from the fantasy element of talking apes, is such an amazing franchise, because under the surface of that genre, you're actually looking at human nature.
Matt Reeves
Nature
You
Opportunity
Amazing
Thought
Looking
Human Nature
Incredible
Franchise
Most
Genre
Talking
Because
Surface
Human
Ape
Fantasy
Aside
Planet
Element
Actually
'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
Great
Amazing
Incredible
Characters
Totally
About
Seem
Mythic
Had
Realism
Avatar
Fantasy
Utter
The funny thing is all these school shootings that we have, always happen in very religious communities. Maybe it's because the centre of their lives is a big fat nothing and it's just a fantasy and there's nothing there. I think maybe that might have something to do with it.
Matthew Bright
Funny
School
Big
Nothing
Think
Funny Thing
Religious
Something
Because
Always
Very
Maybe
Just
Happen
Centre
Might
Fantasy
Communities
Lives
Thing
Fat
We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.
Matthew Tobin Anderson
Love
Think
Out
Characters
Kings
Princes
Which
Turn
Fantasy
Novels
Peasants
I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.
Matthew Tobin Anderson
Science
Someone
Science Fiction
Fiction
Loved
Fantasy
Really
Who
Novels
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Max Beerbohm
Reality
Solid
Fantasy
Should
Base
The vast majority of fantasy football fans, myself included, revel in the absurdity of it all.
Max Handelman
Myself
Fans
Vast
Vast Majority
Football
Absurdity
Majority
Fantasy
Included
The thing I really love about 'Saturday Night Fever' is that the movie is a gritty drama. Most people just remember the amazing, whimsical fantasy dance scenes, but then, when you watch it again, it's raw.
Max Joseph
Love
You
People
Remember
Amazing
Dance
Gritty
Drama
About
Scenes
Raw
Most
Fever
Just
Movie
Again
Whimsical
Fantasy
Then
Really
Saturday
Thing
Saturday Night
Watch
Night
If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.
Meghan Daum
Shades
Generic
Female
Denominator
Common
Romance
Common Denominator
Grey
Anything
Fantasy
Fifty
Lowest
Engineered
Cynically
Appeal
The first fantasy books I can remember reading were 'The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek' and the series of 'Mushroom Planet' books.
Melanie Rawn
Remember
First
Reading
Mushroom
Cricket
Books
Were
Fantasy
Planet
Series
Shy
Creek
Part of the appeal of fantasy for me is that I don't get bored. If I want to write quasi-Medieval, that's what I write. If I feel like doing contemporary for a while, then I'll do it.
Melanie Rawn
Me
Bored
Write
Part
Feel
Like
Contemporary
Doing
Get
Want
While
Fantasy
Then
Appeal
With any sci-fi fantasy storytelling, you must have rules be very clear, otherwise you lose people, like 'OK, they can fly; now they can't fly.'
Melissa Rosenberg
You
People
Fly
Lose
Otherwise
Rules
OK
Must
Clear
Like
Sci-Fi
Very
Any
Storytelling
Fantasy
Now
I'm not saying that 'Twilight' is, you know, some brilliant Oscar-winner, it's not 'Dr. Zhivago.' It's not trying to be. Because it is a female fantasy. I would argue that it's actually a universal fantasy. Which is, the fantasy being to be loved and cherished for exactly who you are.
Melissa Rosenberg
Saying
You
Brilliant
Would
Exactly
Some
Argue
Know
Because
Female
Cherished
Trying
Being
Loved
Which
Fantasy
Who
Twilight
Actually
Dr
Universal
When I was in my early to mid-teens, that was a very heavy diet of science fiction and fantasy, so those were the kinds of books I tended to imagine writing someday, or even began to try to write.
Michael Chabon
Science
Writing
Try
Books
Those
Kinds
Someday
Write
Science Fiction
Were
Began
Very
Diet
Heavy
Fiction
Fantasy
Even
Early
Imagine
In a single lifetime, roughly from 1865 to 1930, one finds the pioneering and patterning works of modern fantasy, science fiction, children's literature and detective fiction, of modern adventure, mystery and romance.
Michael Dirda
Science
Single
Finds
Detective
Mystery
Lifetime
Adventure
Science Fiction
Pioneering
Modern
Romance
Children
Fiction
Literature
Fantasy
Works
Roughly
Young people looking for adventure fiction now generally turn to fantasy, but for those of a certain age, the spy thriller has long been the escape reading of choice.
Michael Dirda
Age
People
Long
Looking
Reading
Young
Those
Thriller
Generally
Adventure
Been
Spy
Escape
Fiction
Young People
Turn
Fantasy
Choice
Certain
Certain Age
Now
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
People
Mysteries
Possible
Must
Eccentric
Exception
Merely
Adventure
Edwardian
Fiction
Victorian
Fantasy
View
Reasonable
Many
Popular
Fascination
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
Myself
Think
Way
Liberating
Like
Well
Sort
Emptiness
Because
Always
Material
Historical
Being
Happened
Fantastic
Fantasy
Rooted
Using
Found
Why
Actually
I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon as I realise I'm reading a book that hasn't got its roots in a reality I can comprehend, I switch off.
Michael Morpurgo
Reality
Book
World
Invent
Reading
Comprehend
Write
Soon
Read
Does
Got
Exist
Off
Cannot
Realise
Either
Which
Fantasy
Really
Roots
Switch
Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured mirror of the United States - a type of mirror that could look a lot more like the United States, if, say, a Middle Eastern George Washington would emerge.
Michael Oren
Mirror
Type
Back
Say
States
East
Eastern
Would
Emerge
More
Colonial
Tendency
Could
Like
Look
George
Lot
George Washington
Times
American
Going
Middle
Middle East
Middle Eastern
Fantasy
Washington
United
United States
Fractured
Before my teens, my contemporaries were reading Tolkien and were absorbed by his works, but try as I might, I could not be drawn in, perhaps as something in me resists the epic, medieval-feeling fantasy.
Michael Portillo
Me
Try
Reading
Before
Teens
Drawn
Something
Could
Absorb
Perhaps
Contemporaries
Were
His
Epic
Might
Fantasy
Works
Tolkien
Donald Trump has been both a peculiar and characteristic American figure for more than three decades. Inheriting a small New York real-estate development company from his father, he parlayed it not so much into a big real-estate company, but himself into a fantasy of a big real-estate developer.
Michael Wolff
Father
Three
Big
Characteristic
Has-Been
More
Small
Both
He
Developer
Development
New
Himself
Been
His
Trump
Than
Decades
American
Donald
York
Donald Trump
New York
Fantasy
Much
Figure
Company
Peculiar
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
You
Met
Way
Tell
Silent
Silent Movie
Purest
About
Directors
Most
Make
Because
Dialogue
Lot
Movie
Story
Them
Fantasy
Creating
Actually
Images
Need
With photography, you've captured a moment time - it's that moment only - and in painting, you play with it; you manipulate how time is presented. It's about fantasy and illusion and the creation of desire.
Mickalene Thomas
Time
You
Photography
Illusion
Creation
Painting
About
Only
How
Manipulate
Fantasy
Moment
Captured
Play
Desire
Presented
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
You
Science
Everything
Say
Collapse
Simply
Science Fiction
Ceiling
Debt
Debt Ceiling
Going
Fiction
Fantasy
Raise
That's a fantasy of mine. We could do every record in a residency. It would be so cool. We could play the B-sides along with the album and get really creative with it.
Mike McCready
Creative
Every
Mine
Would
Would-Be
Record
Could
Along
Get
Fantasy
Really
Cool
Residency
Play
Album
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