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It`s a spooky show, with tons of archetypes and tons of mythology,

- Jared Padalecki

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn`t work out like that.

- Laura Dern

I have deep feelings about Star Trek. I feel that it`s able to present archetypes that are important story telling tools. And we need story telling.

- Nana Visitor

That`s what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.

- Brian De Palma

The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.

- Atom Egoyan

I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with.

- John Boorman

That`s not the part of the story that I`m interested in, anyway. The part that I`m interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.

- Brad Bird