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What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.

— Tom Hanks

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.

— Philipp Meyer

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

— John Boorman

What was accomplished in 'Band of Brothers' was incredible, from the writing and producing to the performances of the actors who honored all those men that fought bravely and gave the ultimate sacrifice for the freedoms we enjoy today.

— Jon Seda

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.

— Joan D. Vinge

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

— Wally Lamb

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

— Dustin Hoffman

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

— Baz Luhrmann

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

— D. H. Lawrence

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

— Karen O

✗Opposing Perspectives

I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with.

— John Boorman