Action films are an extension of Greek myths which have been around since Homer`s The Iliad. Everybody`s life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves. With an action film its just more apparent. That`s why people will always love action movies.
- Dolph LundgrenThe author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
- Aldous HuxleyThe Catalogue of Ships in the second book of Homer`s Iliad names the places in Greece that committed ships and troops to the siege of Troy,
- David HillOne can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
- Raymond QueneauFiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.
- Raymond QueneauThe Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
- Raymond QueneauA very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.
- Raymond QueneauIt doesn`t seem to me that anyone has discovered much that`s new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
- Raymond QueneauI have more respect for The Iliad now than I`ve ever had, and I`ve always thought it was possibly the finest piece of literature there was.
- Dan SimmonsThe Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.
- Alex Morrison