Hergé wrote about fictional people in a real world, not in a fantasy universe.

Steven Spielberg
  • in <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/02/steven-spielberg-on-tintin-technology-it-made-me-more-like-a-painter-than-ever-before-.html" target="blank">Latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/</a>
Other quotes from Steven Spielberg.