Books Quote by Graham Joyce

Some acts of worldbuilding in fiction instantiate a milieu that is so culturally odd and exotic, so displaced from the audience's consensus reality in…

— Paul Di Filippo

I think there's nothing more wonderful than using fiction to reflect real-world cultural ideas.

— Jesse Eisenberg

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have…

— Spike Lee

Culture is fundamental. Literature saves you. Cinema saves you.

— Lea Seydoux

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in…

— Khaled Hosseini

I think our literary tradition has to evolve, has to explore its form and its spirit through writers and thinkers, rather than let the…

— Xiaolu Guo

I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in…

— Andy Serkis

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and…

— John Cheever

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

— David Strathairn

I'm not a writer who looks for the fantastic and the sensational. I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and…

— Graham Swift

I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and they are…

— David Oyelowo

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

— Eric Rohmer