Quotes About Reality

The 'Raining Gold' video naturally took on one of the messages behind the song, which is you should never assume anything about someone or a situation just because it looks a certain way on the surface.

Video looks like reality, it's more immediate, it has a verite surface to it. Film has this liquid kind of surface, feels like something made up.

I live my life on TV - it's like a home video.

I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with my video camera, it can only record what is happening now. I am celebrating reality and the essence of the moment. And that's the greatest challenge that I have.

War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.

There's a sense of fiction in every video game. It creates a world for itself that you want to obey.

It's so hard to tell people I'm in a video game... just because I grew up with my dad being in a video game.

Honestly, to tell you the truth, being trapped in any video game sounds like a living nightmare to me. In most video games, the point is it's a fight for survival, so I think it would be a terrifying place to live.

In the past, a lot of films based on video games think that the audience wants to experience what it's like to play the game, and that's absolutely not the case.

Have I ever had dance lessons? I'm mobile, but not nearly as much as our promotional videos lead people to believe.

Music videos are not as glamorous as they seem. They are very tiring.

I feel a lot of hip-hop videos are all about portraying a lifestyle that the artist doesn't even live.

'The Dance Scene' is just a real look at what it takes. You see the award shows. You see the videos and you never realize what goes on behind the scenes. The reality and the preparation. The motivation I have to give each dancer on that set.

You see the music videos and the bling and the cars, but all of that goes home at the end of the shoot. They make nothing because there's less and less money in the music industry.

It's just weird because videos games let you be something that you're not; so does acting, but it puts you in, like, a real-situation-type thing or something totally different.

I started doing videos in high school with my friends. I was very popular. I did my own kind of little reality show - mainly, my videos were about beauty and very gossipy in nature.

I think kind of what you see in the videos is true to me, if not maybe a slightly heightened version of my real self.

Are all my videos a hundred percent real? Absolutely not.

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

In books or films, it is desirable to have a climactic battle scene, but the world does not operate in those gross dramatic terms. In Vietnam, there was a general aimlessness, not just in the physical sense, but beyond that in the moral and ethical sense.

Vietnam affected everything in life while it went on. My time in the service made it clear to me that what we were being told in our newspapers and newscasts, back in the States, wasn't half the story of what was really going on.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

Straight edge is everything about a personal decision to not live my life under the influence or not being aware. I pretty much don't like anything that alters my view of reality or my perception or my grasp.