I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I'm like, 'Well no, fantasy is reality', that's what Lewis Carroll showed in his work.
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Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
When people ask me why is 'Winter's Tale' a fantasy, I point out that it is not a fantasy.
Fantasy is a demanding genre.
It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.
A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.
The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.
Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world.
You can't write about fantasy without being ridiculous.
When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.