Quotes About Reality

That suspension of disbelief that's required as an actor to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances is different to what needs to happen as a director, in the sense that you are the master of all the moving parts. You create the world in every detail.

'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried to avoid the reality of war.

I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?

There are some truths to some of the stories, but a lot of it isn't - you just have got to let it go.

The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.

You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of comedy.

Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.

The thing is, even if you're playing sort of a heightened character and playing inside sort of a heightened reality, you can still apply your own truths to those characters.

It's so hard to write about countries like Haiti because there's truths behind the misperceptions people have. But there's so much more. There are multiple truths.

The make-believe world of 'The Black Tower' succeeds by broadcasting larger truths that might otherwise elude us.

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.

I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.

We are constantly - in order to cope with painful realities - shuffling through third-rate, half-remembered fantasies taken from movies, from TV, from people we admire. We do this individually, we do it collectively - we tell stories to escape our most painful truths.

Try as I do to comprehend the human project and my part in it, I am further than ever from understanding the monstrous everyday things that seem like self-evident truths and existential necessities to so many.

At the root of any societal issue is human truth, especially those truths we find hard to confront.

I like to have something that I can challenge common-sense notions about, challenge the apparent truths, and really look past the many faces of a thing to see what's behind it.