Cinematic Fantasy Quotes

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.

I love these kind of movies as a kind of cinema-going geek myself. Those characters, you want to be like those characters when you go to the movies. You know, when you see a movie with a guy who's really cool and the killing's slick and easy. I don't know. There's something intoxicating about it.

There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine.

I like to make films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost in another world. And film to me is a magical medium that makes you dream... allows you to dream in the dark. It's just a fantastic thing, to get lost inside the world of film.

Movies are about escape.

Being in the camera's eye is like stepping into a dream world, one that is often more interesting than real life.

I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

There’s a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.

The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.