The Hero with a Thousand Faces

“one of the most important books in my life in the last 12 years has been Joseph Campbell's the hero with a thousand faces for the back end of the hero's journey and I haven't read it I know I should I know I should you should actually listen to it to listen to it it's better to I've probably”

“One of the most important books in my life in the last 12 years has been Joseph Campbell's 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces' for the back end of the hero's journey, and I haven't read it.”

“And then it's the heroes the heroes journey through Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell and that one right there influenced Star Wars”

“so he did a series of interviews with Bill Moyers on PBS called the power of myth and he wrote a book called hero with a thousand faces so back in 1988 so I'm I don't know 11 years old or whatever 12 I get introduced to him and I read that book”

“my mom introduced me to a guy named Joseph Campbell back in nature so he did a series of interviews with Bill Moyers on PBS called the power of myth and he wrote a book called hero with a thousand faces”

“And then um Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey. Is it the the hero with a thousand faces? Yes, that’s it. Hero with a thousand faces.”

“my son in 2014 gave me a book joseph campbell and was called here of us a thousand faces and it refers to the hero's journey”

“And it's very interesting because if you look at Joseph Campbell's Hero of a Thousand Faces, it's almost exactly like that.”

“yeah but there's a purpose to having myths right this is joseph campbell's the hero's journey”

“have you ever heard Lucas talk about his friend Joseph Campbell like literally wrote Star Wars based on Joseph Campbell's um steps of a hero's journey it's fascinating they were they were good friends yeah the hero with a thousand faces is his classic book”

“and the hero with a thousand faces is a great book especially as an introduction to that kind of literature”

“if you're interested in story i mean the hero with a thousand faces there's three versions of that book there's the hero with a thousand faces”

“he's basically picking up where joseph campbell left off who wrote the power of myth which is what star wars that was wasn't based on but it was like the george lucas went to”

“So, his like Hero with a Thousand Faces, I think is the book. Um kind of winds up inspiring every single Disney movie that's ever been made in your lifetime.”

“So, I'm not saying let's excise these guys from our intellectual history. But like Campbell was basically a Nazi. Right. [laughter] Yeah, but like if you if you if you read his work and then write Star Wars, you're not a Nazi.”

“and the stories you know if you go back and look at all the stories we've told through mythology through philosophy but like specifically the hero's journey that you know was identified by uh uh why am I spacing on the hero with a thousand faces Joseph Conrad”

“and then there's the hero of a thousand faces there's like a bunch I I bought like cards on Instagram anything I could get my hands on it was called like storytelling tactics”

“But at the end of the book, I did try to land the plane on a hopeful note because I referred to Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, and he is the mythologist who showed that almost all societies around the world have the same central myth.”

“like all that kind of narrative so Joseph Campbell's type stuff yeah sure don't you think that there's lessons to be learned in those right and there's meaning in all those stories and there's there's a longing that we have for a lot of those hero's journey type narratives”

“Joseph Campbell, you've heard of Joseph Campbell, The Hero Thousand Faces, The Hero's Journey, all of those kind of great books that informed Star Wars.”

“He wrote this book uh he wrote his dissertation on this book took him years and then afterwards he did a like too long didn't read version of it which is called the hero has a thousand faces and the hero's journey and then George Lucas picked up those books and he made Star Wars.”

“I think the theory yeah just you know I'm kind of making this up but I think the theory would be the hero with a thousand faces”

“obviously I don't you probably read a lot of Joseph Campbell's stops the arc of the hero to hear what the Thousand Faces”

“look at joseph campbell i'm going to mess up this quote / But in his uh hero 1000 faces he's got this line”

“And so I wanted to be a filmmaker, but I wanted to tell heroes journeys. You know, Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces. Like that was my inspiration.”

“he was a professor i think in like the 70s and 80s but he wrote a book called hero with a thousand faces and then he kind of became well known to vixen he was well known he was kind of the influence on george lucas of the writing of star wars that he had studied all these sort of”

“And I don't watch uh these kinds of films necessarily. Not I'm not against them, but these are archetypal story typing uh storytelling and archetypal heroes. And uh this is very much Joseph Campbell, the hero's journey. And this is what we actually need for kids, I think, is in the stories.”

“take the example of joseph campbell hero of a thousand faces he uh basically left his phd program at columbia i i think”