One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from.
As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.
I definitely read a lot of books on the psychology and mythology behind fairy tales because I think that's really fascinating and there's a lot to draw on there.
Maybe love after all only exists in wonderful fairy tales. I'm just slowly starting to think that,but could I be wrong?
To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids.
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.
In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.
People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.
Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of tellers.
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
All life is bound to a simple truth... that time goes on, that in each person's life begins a tale, a tale that will either end in memory or in legend.
One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out by crows.
What I Love The Most About Making Soundtracks is I’m Creating My Own fairy tales.
Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.
No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.
I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.
I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life.
I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale.
The escape to an unchallenging fairy tale can be very nice and I'm all for that, but film can also challenge you to confront the realities of our world.
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
