Collective unconscious Quote by Alan Ball

I don't worry much about whether or not one of my stories contains elements of the supernatural. If I come up with what I…

— Richard Laymon

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

— Trudi Canavan

I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes,…

— George Lucas

“I think of myth and magic as the hieroglyphics of the human psyche. They are a special language that circumvents conscious thought and goes…

— Ripley Patton

I'm wide open to evidence of the supernatural, but I also think that the majority of those experiences are probably natural phenomena we don't…

— Mike Flanagan

Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for…

— Elizabeth Hand

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…

— Baz Luhrmann

When so much is left to the listener's imagination, it is bound to be more scary. But our stories are not just to frighten;…

— Larry Fessenden

If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to…

— Joseph Campbell

I'm a complete skeptic when it comes to the supernatural and all that. I've never had any ghost stories or any kind of weird…

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.

— Mel Gibson

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

— Joseph Campbell