Quotes About Reality

Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

I really wanted to be a poet - until I realized that I really didn't have what it took to be a poet.

As a public poet, people often don't see the reality of my life.

The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.

Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.

Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.

It has been hard for me in a sense because from an industry point of view - I don't care if I'm from the 'X Factor;' I embrace the fact that I'm from the 'X Factor,' but other people don't embrace that.

War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.

As an actor, you can't play a flashback; you can't play someone's memory. You just have to play each circumstance as if it was real and understand that person's point of view.

Your high points and your low points. High points don't last that long, it's a high and it happens. It's great at the moment but you really can't live on it.

I don't have a Pollyana attitude toward life that claims everything is lovely.

American history is not clean.

I played a lawyer in a movie, so, many times I think I am a lawyer. And clearly I'm not a lawyer, because I got arrested.

I do show violence as entertainment. Clearly, I'd be a liar if I said I didn't.

Fear warps our understanding of reality and even our ability to see reality clearly.

I never believe anything in the world of entertainment until it actually happens and the check clears the bank.

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.

The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me.