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If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.

The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.

I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren't real, with falling stars and pirates. But what you do relate to is the emotions that the characters feel.

Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.

I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.