Ancient Quote by Kenneth Branagh

Frankenstein feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. It appeals to something very primal, but…

— Kenneth Branagh

I began to pick apart our knowledge of Frankenstein and discovered that the public's idea of this myth comes from a million different places...…

— Max Landis

Frankenstein's actually interesting; he's kind of like a zombie.

— Mark Waters

I've always loved Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. There's this wonderful chapter in which we get a first-person account of the monster's first impressions of the…

— Mordicai Gerstein

I think horror or science fiction is another way of telling a modern myth - it's like Ancient Greece; it's like kids couldn't wait…

— Reg E. Cathey

I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.

— Peter Benchley

I think our grandparents were Victor Frankenstein. I basically am the kind of deeply unnatural creature that Mrs Shelley instinctively dreaded. I not only…

— Bruce Sterling

There are perennial stories like 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Sherlock Holmes' and those sorts of things, which have been around since almost as long…

— Peter Jackson

I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great.

— Guillermo del Toro

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

— Anne Enright

One of the things in the Mary Shelley [Frankenstein] is that the creature tells his story, so this begins with the creature's point of…

— Danny Boyle

I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke to me.…

— Tim Burton