Epic Quotes

I have a tendency to do the epic kind of long shot and put in everything that you need to know. And that's by design; that's the kind of approach I take to it.

There is a part of me that likes things that are epic, that's why I think a lot of my songs go to these soundscapes that are cinematic, because I really like the epic storytelling.

THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope.

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The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue.

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.

Gas is getting so expensive I'm gonna ride a mexican to work.

History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.

Heaven is a person: Jesus.

Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.

When I was growing up, my idea of Led Zeppelin was all epic lasers, castles, and ten-minute drum solos - that sort of thing.

So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What’s wrong with me?

There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.

The Hunger Games has epic spectacle, yearning romance and suspense that won't quit!

This epic masterpiece tells the world changing story of Jesus and inspires us to love and live for others just as He did.

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe one of the reasons why nobody knows it is because he wasn't a movie star.

It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.

If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema.

Norman is a very up-close, personal, character drama and I'd like to do something more zoomed out, a little more pastoral, some sweeping epic. I'd like to try something different.

What would bring about a revival of epic proportion?

I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.

I've read 'Valley of the Dolls' at least four times. It's so epic!

When there are rock festivals where there are sometimes 120,000 people and they're all sold out and they're epic, I think rock is alive and well, and hopefully it stays that way.

I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it.

I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write what you want to read.

I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.

It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom.

Nice teeth is a turn on for me. If you open your mouth and it looks like a battle of epic proportions, I don't like it.

I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself.

I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.

Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick within a classic disaster movie.

The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have.

He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts; But double griefs afflict concealing harts, As raging flames who striveth to supresse.

[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all the character of a great epic.

One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.

I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.

As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has qualities of the mythological, of an epic.

So much as I enjoy big novels of epic sweep, I often find, say, if they follow several generations, by the third generation, I'm not caring about the people anymore.

I want to do character driven epic storylines with Throne of Atlantis kicking off.

I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.

It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].

Carl Rinsch has a good balance between the visual and the drama and action, so I thought if he's going to direct, we can make a new, epic film. My fear was gone when I met him.

Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.

Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [A New Hope's] blend of adventure, likable characters, and epic storytelling.

My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost - that it is born again.

The fact that a total of 18 musicians humbly came together to share the glory and create something this original, epic, and downright heavy, is a feat worthy of deep respect.

I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.

I think it's essential to make new music now, and to try and make epic records now, and not rely on what happened in the past.