Quotes About Artifice

Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

La literatura es puro artificio, pero la gran literatura consigue disimularlo y la mediocre lo delata.

If we all shift to the simulacrum, then the simulacrum, for all practical purposes, becomes the real.

For Zaza If there are tears in my eyes tonight, is it because you are no longer alive, or because I am? I should dedicate this story to you, but I know that you no longer exist anywhere, and my writing to you like this is pure literary artifice. In any case, this isn't really your story, only one inspired by us. You were not Andrée; nor was I Sylvie, who speaks in my name.

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

Oh! where is Truth? am I never to find it? I can bear artifice in the frivolities and gauds of the world–it is all artificial in itself, all heartless–but sorrow should be as true as it is sacred. Falseness there appals and disgusts me.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

Oh, I can't stand reality television.

My face changes when I wear make-up; I don't recognise myself.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?

From my hair to my toes to my nails. Everything's fake. Everything! Even my heart is fake.

Words are nothing but clothes.....The body in love has always been clothed by words that try to conceal. You can't suppress or conceal by concealing, he said.

All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be the guardian of my own heart, But he admitted that he could not teach me how or when to allow the fortress to be breached or my heart to be unlocked. It would simply happen, he said. he promised it would, in fact. But how is love to find me, even assuming it is looking?

If everything became 'artificial,' then nothing was 'artificial.

To be fake in this dreamy universe is to believe in actual authenticity and behave accordingly, and to be in tune with the real is to know it's all phony and to create, with a generous heart, your own sweet ruse.

It was only after her marriage that she had learned to create the illusion of beauty, which is, perhaps, more difficult to achieve than beauty itself.

there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you're making it up as you go along.

The greatest writers of spy fiction have, in almost every case, worked in intelligence before turning to writing. W. Somerset Maugham, John Buchan, Ian Fleming, Graham Greene, John le Carré: all had experienced the world of espionage firsthand. For the task of the spy is not so very different from that of the novelist: to create an imaginary, credible world and then lure others into it by words and artifice.

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

Fiction accesses a certain kind of truth through artifice. I love to create worlds that operate on their own terms.

And the podcasting - I swear to you - on its worst day, the podcasts are better than our best films. Because they're more imaginative, and there's no artifice, and it's far more real.

One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.