Mark Frost Quotes

I'd like to be someone on 'Games of Thrones.'

With 'Game of Thrones' you're not really dealing with anything that is based in reality. You have dragons and magic and all of that.

For 'Monster Hunter,' we needed insane landscapes.

Shows like Game of Thrones, stories like that, only really come around once every 10, 15 years. I can't remember the last time a show has really caught the imagination that way. Maybe Star Wars back in the '70s.

'Avatar: The Last Airbender' is, to my mind, the greatest American animated series ever produced. The characters lived and breathed.

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.

Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the strangest one I've ever done. I created six large, separate outlines, one for each part of the book, and hung them around my study.

It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.

'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.

Look how long it took to build the Freedom Tower, and we wanted that. It took 15 years.

The genius of 'Game of Thrones' is that in this rich imagining of a world redolent of the medieval, the rules of a Middle Ages morality play have been so thoroughly discarded.

Nothing is impossible on 'Game of Thrones.'

Tolkien was influenced by South Africa when he was writing 'Lord of the Rings.' It's really epic scenery.

At its root, 'God of War' was always the promise of adventure.

Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam's mind.

I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.

I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension.

What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions.

Atlantis: Fabled. Mystical. Golden. Mysterious. Glorious and magical. There are those who claim that it never was. But then there are also those who think they are safe in this modern world of technology and weapons. Safe from all the ancient evils. They even believe that wizards, warriors, and dragons are long dead. They are fools clinging to their science and logic while thinking it will save them. (Thrylos)

I don't believe in things like that - fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It's old-fashioned.' 'Well, we must be jolly old-fashioned then,' said Bessie. 'Because we not only believe in the Faraway Tree and love our funny friends there, but we go to see them too - and we visit the lands at the top of the Tree as well!

At the time, sword and sorcery stories were quite popular. There were female warriors waving swords around as well, but the genre is populated entirely with people who have absolutely no responsibility to anyone, so I knew my story would have to be completely different from any of these.