Quotes About Reality

The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.

The trouble is that in south cinema, after you become successful at the box office, market realities dictate your choice of films, and it becomes difficult to experiment.

I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!

People tend to forget that celebrities are human beings. We live our lives. We try to do what we love, which is music. And to share it with everyone in our job usually is to entertain and to make people forget their troubles.

It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from.

You know what no one tells you about driving a truck? You are driving a truck. There are only side mirrors, and it does not handle like a Prius.

When you say 'Monster Trucks,' people don't think monsters inside of trucks.

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

True time is four-dimensional.

Some stories are true that never happened.

Every true hustler knows that you cannot hustle forever. You will go to jail eventually.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.

All fiction is based on truth - 'Madame Bovary' is based on a true story!

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

If you're a believer, God is not a thought-experiment requiring a special sub-creation to be tried out in. He's an actual, er, actuality already, embedded in a necessary and true story about guilt, hope, and liberty. I don't want C. S. Lewis doing his resourceful best to render Him as a fabulous special effect.