I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.
I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.
'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.
I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.
A revival of 'Of Mice and Men' would have seemed out of place in years of Reaganomics, Donald Trump and Michael Milken, a time when Rambo supplied millions of filmgoers with a fantasy that masked what was really going on in their lives.
I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.
Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.
The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
Before my teens, my contemporaries were reading Tolkien and were absorbed by his works, but try as I might, I could not be drawn in, perhaps as something in me resists the epic, medieval-feeling fantasy.
Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.
I think fantasy thrillers excite audiences as, inherently, people have a fascination for the unknown and the unexplained.
I'm a geek - I read fantasy novels, I play 'World of Warcraft,' I'm a massive gamer, I have 'Star Trek' outfits.
With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.
I believe excellent fantasy reflects us all, and yes, it can use those myths that underpin societies, our subconscious yearnings and longings, and perhaps our barren spirituality.
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.