Quotes About Escape

Reading, like writing, was a survival strategy when I was young because these were ways of feeling that my world could be much larger than it actually was. It was inevitable that I would end up writing sci-fi or fantasy.

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

There are certain rules one must abide by in order to succesfully survive a horror movie.

I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of 'Law and Order,' the Benjamin Bratt/Jerry Orbach era.

I just survived a Disney career without singing. I don't want to, like, fall back in. I feel like I escaped, so if we could avoid it for as long as possible, that would be great.

One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.

The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.

Work is the only way - the only sustainable way - to escape poverty.

Of course, I have my ways of getting into trouble. We all have times when we think, Oh my God, can the world please swallow me up and take me away from this?

I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power - far from the demands of business - out of the dusty highway where fools struggle and strive for the hollow praise of other fools.

I feel a strong connection to water, so, no matter the time of year, I always go for a swim.

If I'm anywhere close to where I can hike or swim, that's my favourite thing to do.

I love skinny-dipping. Night swimming as well; that's my favorite.

I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards.

I've always had this thing for swimming pools - I think they're much sexier and far more glamorous than the beach, in a way. You dress differently when you're spending a day at an amazing pool than you would dress for the beach.

I think a good book is one you can lose yourself in and find yourself in, and that's what I did with 'Swing Time.'

We were brought up with having a love of your garden, having somewhere you can go in, it's your little sanctuary, you can go there and you can switch off.

It's quite nice to switch off and not see anything to do with cricket.

It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.

I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off.

I love listening to old 'Desert Island Discs' - I just sit there, switch my head off, and just have that moment.

I drive to clear my mind, like many people do. It's like, once you get in the car, whatever song you put on, it's so symbiotic. Your mood could change in a second.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

When I started Participant, I felt that the movie business was ripe for a company that dealt with big issues in a systemic way. I was a little surprised that nobody had done it before. But to most people, entertainment is escapism.