Campbell Mythology Quotes

#1. Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood.

Joseph Campbell

#2. If you just read Joseph Campbell, who has written amazing books on mythology and religion, they all do come together at some point. There are some of the greatest stories that there have ever been in the Bible. All you have to do is read the book of Maccabi, it's like a film script.

Mel Gibson

#3. I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.

Robert Redford

#4. I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.

Antoine Fuqua

#5. Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience.

Joseph Campbell