Odyssey Quotes

A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It`s like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.

I call this my church house trilogy. Souls` Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church within itself. The Delta is the church of American Roots music. The Badlands is a cathedral without a top on it. And the Ryman has been called the Mother Church of Country Music, but to me it`s the Mother Church of American Music. If you can think it up, it`s been done there. In my mind, this is kind of a spiritual odyssey as much as anything else, and I had the settings of three churches to make it in.

If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer`s sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.

Fiction 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.

In the Odyssey, there are technical refinements which are extremely remarkable, and I`m surprised they aren`t mentioned more often.

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

It doesn`t seem to me that anyone has discovered much that`s new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

The 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.

`The Odyssey,` by Homer,