“It's a metaphor for our culture. This is where we get a lot of images we use in popular culture.”
The Wizard of Oz
“Pac-Man didn't occupy its place in commercial culture because consumers wanted to metaphorically imitate an insatiably hungry little yellow ball; they bought because the game was good enough to tap into genuine sources of pleasure”
Chris Green
“Most Hollywood boxing movies are metaphors. Your movie is not a metaphor. It's really about boxing.”
Walter Hill
“Yeah, obviously we use vampires as a metaphor for something else, something deeper than just the supernatural. But there's just something about the bloodsucking walking dead, that can say so much to people. There are really so many people trying to get control over you on a daily basis and steal your soul in some way, take a part of you...”
Gerard Way
“Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?”
Chuck Palahniuk
“God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.”
Joseph Campbell
“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.”
Norman Cousins
