Archetype Quote by Kurt Busiek Download Open image “The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.” — Kurt Busiek ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Archetype Character Different Metaphor Nature
I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used to express… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Metaphors introduce symbolic elements that add layers of meaning and depth to how characters feel in any given situation.” — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it. — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings. — Lisa Kudrow Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...) — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
The most fascinating powers don't mean a thing if the guy's poorly motivated or dull, and the most generic powers won't hurt a well-motivated… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
The reason I quit being a sales manager over twenty years now is because I hate elevator pitches. I want to write stories and… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
If I won the lottery tomorrow - which would be a real trick, since I haven't entered - and was independently wealthy for the… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
"Superhero" is a term that's been borrowed in order to say "big and larger than life and loud and active and dumb." And I… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
You've got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is,… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
That's the way it happens - some characters you set out to use, some are happy accidents. As long as it works, it doesn't… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
I love creator-owned comics. Most of my favorite books these days are creator-owned, from stuff DC publishes, like 'Fables,' to books like 'Saga,' 'Fatale,'… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
It's fun to take a piece of formula and go someplace else with it and see what happens. — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used to express… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldnt like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done with it. — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions. — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Certain mystical philosophers have personified Destiny, and from this point of view each man's personal destiny is his archetype or "other self"--his "angel"--with whom… — Charles le Gai Eaton Copy Share Image
I think people have this stereotypical idea in their head of what a nerd is. People have said to me before, "You're not a… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you… — Connie Zweig Copy Share Image
I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me. — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is usually commenced… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Finally, if you still are growing, you reach the highest archetype, the archetype of the spirit. This is the time when you finally realize… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
