In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don’t believe this, just think how many times you’ve described some real event as being ‘just like a movie.’ – Brad Holland
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality. – Beverly Sills
At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that’s why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities. – Brett Ratner
The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it. – Arthur C. Danto
Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn’t have shades of gray in it doesn’t live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition. – Alexis Denisof
The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that. – Carlos Castaneda
Just as man can’t exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one’s rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property. – Ayn Rand
I’ve always have loved reality programmes. ‘Big Brother,’ ‘I’m A Celebrity,’ they’re my guilty pleasure. – Amy Childs
We believe that Apple has it wrong: they’ve talked about it being the post-PC era, they talk about the tablet and PC being different; the reality in our world is that we think that’s completely incorrect. – B. Kevin Turner
People’s perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I’m basically just your average dork. – Art Alexakis
Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that’s brave. I never get over being thankful for that – for the courage of my readers. – Barbara Kingsolver
I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn’t gratuitous, it was just these guys’ story. – Bobby Farrelly
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. – Andrea Dworkin
All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That’s why it was so easy to parody. – Cat Deeley
The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you’re dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that’s a concern no matter what kind of movie you’re dealing with. – Adam Arkin
I’m too old to be humiliated on reality shows, and I don’t want to look desperate. You won’t see me on ‘Big Brother’ or in the jungle. – Bobby Davro
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world. – Arnold Newman
YouTube clips get millions, billions of hits. Reality TV programs have their own channels. How can movies attempt to compete with these kinds of numbers? And do we even need to? Are we scaring ourselves by unnecessary comparisons, by not comparing apples with apples? – Alison Owen
Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. ‘Where did the totality of reality come from?’ ‘Did time have a beginning?’ – Brian Greene
Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that’s art. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don’t come off well, and it’s embarrassing. – Amanda Hearst
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books. – Alan Furst
People like reality; I think it’s always happened from the Roman times, when people used to go to a coliseum and watch people compete against each other. I think networks and cable channels find it an easier way of producing and putting things together, because people will watch it and it’s cheaper. – David Charvet
