The escape to an unchallenging fairy tale can be very nice and I'm all for that, but film can also challenge you to confront the realities of our world.
Ezra Miller
Related The fireplace is warm nook Penina Mezei’s house in fairy tale in which the "fairy-tale-in Jukebox"... PENINA MEZEI I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a 'fairy tale,' but I really loved 'Mulan,&... LILY COLE Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not t... KATE FORSYTH To serve the world, serve yourself first by becoming happy and the best person that you can be. DEBASISH MRIDHA Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I... VICTOR ORTIZ Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart... GERMANY KENT As cynical as I can be, there's always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale. LILY JAMES As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fair... AARON SORKIN Knowing that you can endure a very difficult challenge offers a degree of confidence that the next c... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE I can be really annoying, but I also feel like I'm a nice person. MIKE WHITE It's heavy, but also it's sort of the philosophy of Hospice that it's not about death. It's about li... LANDON ADAMS It's a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales, through the eyes of Terry Gilliam, ... This ... MATT DAMON It's a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales through the eyes of Terry Gilliam, ... This f... MATT DAMON And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I ... MIKE MYERS Tolkien reintroduced the world of fairy tale to a new audience. It was a very traditional image of f... TOM SHIPPEY The fairy tale belongs to the poor...I know of no fairy tale which upholds the tyrant, or takes the ... ERIK CHRISTIAN HAUGAARD 'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fair... NANCY WERLIN You know, our ratings after this match will be very close - I think I can also become the world numb... VLADIMIR KRAMNIK I looked at myself, and I just said, 'Well, you know, I can sing, but I'm not the greatest s... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN There's a bit of a strange twist to my ending – I won't say what. I was anxious not to abandon the... CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't le... MICHAEL SHANNON The best fairy-tale we can have in this universe is to live on our miraculous planet! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable ... CARLY RAE JEPSEN I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected f... JUNOT DIAZ I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of y... DAVID CRONENBERG I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - w... CRISTIANO RONALDO If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future. DANIELLE STEEL Not all who listen, believe. If you call the Gospel a crazy fairy tale, a far-too-good-to-be-true my... PETER KREEFT No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I don't want to feel what I'm creating on film has an outcome that is preordained. I don'... PAUL GREENGRASS Don’t simply exist in this world, but grasp life’s potential by the jacket. Dare it to be all it... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the powe... EBON MOSS-BACHRACH You can't just come from Kansas, go into fashion and be all naive. The fashion world is very dif... LINDSEY WIXSON I overthink everything. I'm very keen there should be a positive outcome. I like to control outc... BERTIE CARVEL Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent ... ADAM SAVAGE What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly th... JACK ZIPES I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you. EMINEM The fairy tale of film—created with the magic of animation—is the modern equivalent of the great... WALT DISNEY COMPANY I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there. KATHRYN BIGELOW Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the... JESS C. SCOTT All realities can be played upon the very same piano. AARON SANTOS I'm a goal setter, but in broad strokes. I don't have a by-October-2009-I-want-to-be-here pl... ERIC DANE The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative par... BEN OKRI I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get i... IMELDA MAY i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, ... RAVI SHANKAR Our souls yearn for connection with all souls. There are people we think we prefer and others we don... ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS I try to avoid wearing black because sometimes it's the easy option. But I'm young, so it... EMMA WATSON At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. ... GAVIN O'CONNOR I will tell you, too, that every fairy tale has a moral. The moral of my story may be that love is a... THEODORA GOSS Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanth... MARILYN MANSON I have songs that define characters from each film of mine. It can be a song from that particular fi... SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT It's a fairy tale come true, ain't it? And she's got great legs. What more can you ask for? DAVID ROSENTHAL Enchanted castle corridors are the right place to "get in" research on fairy tales - it's a fairy ta... PENINA MEZEI One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale mak... REGINA DOMAN I love that very traditional fairy tale where it's not all 'happily ever after.' I like ... ERIN MORGENSTERN I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the fi... DANIEL DAY-LEWIS "A fairy tale is a land of personal escape. Reality bites but we are forced to bite back or else we ... ANGELO JORGE I hope it's always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I've been very lucky l... SAMUEL BARNETT Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I... ARNAUD DESPLECHIN You can be a pretty face, but if you're not a nice person, it just doesn't work. I'm not... KATE MOSS I'm in 'Madagascar 2.' I'm Testy the Lion. The franchise moves to Africa, and Bernie... TOM LISTER, JR. Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because ... WOODY HARRELSON Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadi... HENRY DAVID THOREAU I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film... SAMANTHA MORTON And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder... ERIN MORGENSTERN Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's... OLGA KURYLENKO Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love a... GERMANY KENT Since I'm so slow, I have to be fairly choosy about the projects I take on, and it can't be ... LEE BERMEJO He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story... JANE CAMPION When you are putting so much emphasis on the kitchen while it is a very nice idea you are also... ARIC CHEN When you are putting so much emphasis on the kitchen — while it is a very nice idea — you are al... ARIC CHEN The network shows have this very commercial voice that you have to adhere to, and the cable shows, i... JILL SOLOWAY I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of t... PATRICK MARBER I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an... PATSY KENSIT I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maxi... JOHN GRISHAM I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for p... MAE JEMISON If you can film an idea in your mind, follow that film idea shot for shot, scene for scene and enjoy... CRAIG MAPP Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it's in a fairy tale, or perhaps becau... KENNETH BRANAGH Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was... TERRI WINDLING Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,'... RICHARD DAWKINS I cannot save the world; that's not what I'm trying to do. I guess I'm just trying to wa... MARY J. BLIGE I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and lov... MICHAEL FRANTI Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And... BOOTSY COLLINS I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH Be yourself, be who you can be. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I'm very energized but, I also recognize the enormity of our challenge, JAMES ADAMSON I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am in... DAVID ATTENBOROUGH As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge. CHRISTOPHER DODD This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes y... TERRY PRATCHETT The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it a... MICKEY ROURKE But we can turn challenges into opportunities if we look outwards to the realities of the global eco... JOHN HUTTON I'm an escapist. I'm not a planner; I've never made a decision about anything in my life... PETER BEARD
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