Quotes About Reality

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

We like non-fiction because we live in fictitious times.

In my mind, there's not a great difference between what people call fiction and non-fiction. So in that sense, I'm like an early-18th-century person. I actually believe there's one way of writing.

I'm a big fan of non-fiction, and I am a believer that fact is much more exciting than fiction.

One thing that I really love about making records is that you can flow through fiction and non-fiction but, ultimately, everything's a commentary on real life in some way.

Lives don't divide up into chapters. People don't just talk, while nothing's going on in their head, and then respond. You know, none of these things actually happen.

None of us live in a zero-risk world.

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

Nonfiction is never going to die.

I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

People sometimes say hoaxes are about the blurry line between nonfiction and fiction. I just don't think it's a blurry line at all.

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

To assume that any couple goes without arguing is just nonsense.

Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most of the time... well, I don't. It's like this whole heart-throb nonsense. It's flattering, but that's not how I feel in the morning. It's something that goes with the job.

We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

I've never been more normal than I am now.

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.

If I start to become a star, I'll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.

I've had some people tell me they're glad I'm a normal girl. Of course I'm a normal girl!