Things aren't always the fairy tale that you thought they were.
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.
When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written.
Casting directors are like these fairy godmother witches.
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.
I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.
The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world.
Indexing' is a police procedural about protecting the world from memetic incursions - which is to say, fairy tales.
Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.
'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.
I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favorite.