Quotes About Reality

Our age-old faith in divine male intuition is no longer good enough. Reality check, fellas: We are not gods. We are men. Let's own it.

When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.

I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate.

As writers, our job is to try to create, in a fake space, something that feels true. That's just straight-up fiction: Invent a character that doesn't exist; make them seem like they do.

In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history.

I think the hardest part, and where we have to stay the most disciplined, as much as you want a player, you can't invent him if he doesn't exist.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know.

As a writer you often watch things with a certain distance.. More often, you're worried that something that you have invented is going to become reality, and you'll look like you copied it.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.

Films can be entertaining without shying away from exploring something. They can be magical and have fantasy, but also can have enough reality that you can be really emotionally invested.

When parents have invested enormous amounts of money in their kids' education, to find their kids coming back to live with them - well, that was not what they bargained for.

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

A company's commitment to searching out potential blockbusters and then investing in marketing to convert potential to reality attracts and retains top scientists and creatives.

I don't want to say that when you're an athlete, you take things for granted, but you do. We're supposed to go out and think we're invincible. We're not.

I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.

I never thought that being a footballer I was invincible, I knew I was human.

I don't think I'm invincible.

Some people might think they're invincible, but I don't.

To be quite honest. I have seen a few things in 3D, and it didn't involve me anymore than when I saw something in 2D.

I'll probably at some point get involved in Instagram and things like that because I feel it's reality, and it's the way people communicate.

Because people don't understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad as the illusion that 'Guitar Hero' is the same as a real guitar.

The Iran I'm dreaming of maybe doesn't exist anymore.