- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reality Quotes
What's real depends on where you're standing.
This set weighs reality against illusion, touching on digital-age facts that can't be hidden, the difference between a screen character and the actor playing tough, and why escapist fantasy still appeals. For adjacent emotional ground, see our Pain quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Confronting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.
- Gentle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all its brutal reality.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had one girl send me an e-mail saying she wants to go out with me, but it's like a two-pronged deal because she wants to blog the date. And I'm like, No! I don't want to be on a reality show.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
- Nov 07, 2020
So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while, in fact, much more is staged than we like to think. In cinema verite, it's about trying to make something invisible visible - the role of fantasy and imagination in everyday life.
- Collaborating
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of so-called fly-on-the-wall documentaries, there's a claim that the camera is a transparent window into a pre-existing reality. What really is happening is that the film crew and the subjects are collaborating to simulate a reality in which they pretend the camera is not present.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've always been most interested in is exposing the way stories and fantasies reconstitute our everyday reality. What appears to be non-fiction is not only totally mysterious, unfathomable, and strange when you really look at what it is.
- Nov 07, 2020
I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that our task as filmmakers is to create the most insightful reality given the most pressing questions.
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- Nov 07, 2020