Quotes About Reality

I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after painting dreams as such, or fantasy.

Guys are so predictable. They can't seem to separate fantasy from reality, so I get a lot of bikers and race car drivers hitting on me. They're all just playboys, so they don't interest me.

Did anyone ever hear of an intelligent fantasy?

I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.

We're living in such a fantasy world where nothing makes sense anymore.

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest was fantasy.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself.

Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.

I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.

Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.

All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children.

Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and flights of fantasy, are my personal North Star.

I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.

While growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world. I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.

Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population.

A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.

Dreams that are realistic, often come out of fantasies.

... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.

I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.