Quotes About Reality

I was portraying the family through my eyes. Everything that's happened in the strip has happened to me.

'Stars Earn Stripes' was one of the best experiences of my life.

Shooting against greenscreen... my choice of filming is, like, I'd rather shoot on location than shoot on a set, and I'd rather shoot on a set than shoot against greenscreen. You start stripping away the layers of reality, and it becomes a lot less fun to actually film.

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Even though you strive for perfection, you're never going to play the perfect game.

I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on.

People strive to be models or actresses - but a lot of what you see isn't actually real. There is no perfect body. Everything is retouched.

We're in a world and a society where we're all striving for this perfection that doesn't exist.

There are enormous dangers in thinking that the world online is the world as it exists, that what you get from your one stroke on the Internet is all there is to know.

I've been a big fan of telling stories with young people that have a strong sense of reality.

I've made my kids strong-willed and strong-minded where they know music from reality.

The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.

We'd boil this whisky because we thought that would make it stronger. So we thought we were getting drunk, but in fact there'd be no alcohol left in it.

When doing a fantasy show - or a show with fantasy elements - the more you can anchor an effect to reality, the stronger the illusion is.

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

I feel too strongly about rearranging reality in a movie. It gives me peace.

As artists, we'd all love to not be commercial - to not sell out to the full extent that we are able. But you do what you have to do to pay New York rent and continue to do what you feel strongly about.

I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena.

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

Trump did not spring out of nowhere, and I was struck by how prescient writers like Alexis de Tocqueville and George Orwell and Hannah Arendt were about how those in power get to define what the truth is.

I don't really get star struck.

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.