Quotes About Reality

Celebrities are nowhere as rich as some people think they are.

That kind of creaming off the pretty postcard image of the past, I think, is a road to nowhere.

If you're on a film set for 48 weeks of the year, you're nowhere near reality. You can't emote like a human being.

I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years and many, many opportunities to tell many, many stories about themselves, and black filmmakers have not had as many years, as many opportunities, as many films to explore the nuances of our reality.

Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.

I might be 'Candid Camera's number one fan.

I wonder if the nursery and the chamber of horrors are as far apart as people think?

We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

Eventually you can get into the nuts and bolts of reality: nurturing, caring, and getting along.

They've said 'Roseanne's nuts' for years, and now I'm going to make that a reality - I'm all about nuts now, macadamia nuts!

A lot of the people that stop you - well, they're not nuts, exactly. They're more like super-fans. They think that I'm some sort of rich guy, that everyone in the movies is making the kind of money Angelina Jolie is making. They don't realize that most of my life has been a struggle.

Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them.

I'm honest, at the end of the day - I'm obese, but I'm not obtuse.

You can look in the mirror and try to hide it and cover it up, and it may work here or there, but there ain't no shirt or hat you can put on or haircut you can get to hide the fact that you're morbidly obese.

I finally admitted that obesity and diabetes were part of a life-threatening legacy - and I had to deal with that reality or die.

It is important to remember that a thought is harmless unless we believe them and act on them. As the subject, since thoughts are an object of your awareness, you have the power to challenge every thought. You can decide if you want to make that thought real.

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

I'm objective because I tell the truth.

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

I have many moods, and there is no objective reality. And I kind of live by that.

Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you - a real and objective danger.

What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between?

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

Objectivity is the purpose of documentary filmmakers.