Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tilda Swinton

We talked [with Scott Derrickson] about making it kind of muscular and practical. Yeah it's a fantasy but what's the difference between fantasy and reality really?

Tilda Swinton

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

Tilda Swinton

I think that a real film fan experience is about a kind of omnivorous experience.

Tim Allen

Nothing's as easy as it is on a sitcom. Issues that we take care of in 20 minutes on the show can stretch out over years in real families.

Tim Allen

Can we take a direct flight back to reality or do we have to change planes in Denver?

Tim Allen

Real men don't use instructions, son. Besides, this is just the manufacturer's opinion on how to put this together.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

Always remember that your personality is your big asset. Do not try to emulate another person. Real personality comes from the heart.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can be very often traced to the question of how well the organization brings out the great energies and talents of its people.

Thomas Szasz

How can depression be real if our eyes arent real?

Stevie Nicks

Maybe we were together in another life...in a parallel universe, maybe our paths are not supposed to cross twice, maybe your arms are not supposed to go around me. I hear about you now & then, I wonder where you are & how you feel. Sometimes I walk by & I look up to your balcony, just to make sure you were real-just to make sure that I can still feel you...it appears to me that Destiny Rules...

Steven Wright

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.

Steven Wright

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram.

Steven Soderbergh

A real litmus test for me is how people treat someone who is waiting on them. That's a dealbreaker for me.If I were on the verge of getting into a serious relationship and I saw that person be mean to a waiter... I'm out.

Steven Soderbergh

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.

Steven Soderbergh

Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer.

Steven Soderbergh

American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity of character or narrative — I’m talking in large numbers, there are always some, but enough to make hits out of movies that have those qualities. I think those qualities are now being seen on television and that people who want to see stories that have those kinds of qualities are watching television.

Steven Spielberg

I think the greatest thing about DVD is the quality of sound and picture; the real estate to put more extras on; and, my favorite point is it stores quietly in very subtle places in your home .

Regina Hall

Scary Movie' is very broad, and the reality is extreme.

Regina King

And there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like.

Raymond Moody

What do I think happens when we die? I think we enter into another stage of existence or another state of consciousness that is so extraordinarily different from the reality we have here in the physical world that the language we have is not yet adequate to describe this other state of existence or consciousness. Based on what I have heard from thousands of people, we enter into a realm of joy, light, peace, and love in which we discover that the process of knowledge does not stop when we die. Instead, the process of learning and development goes on for eternity.

Robert Bruininks

We need to make this a reality this year or I strongly suspect it will not happen.

Robert Bresson

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

Robert Bresson

For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of is photographing things that are not real. Sets and actors are not real.

Robert Bresson

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

Tom Kenny

You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.

Tom Hollander

I've always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven't done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me.

Tom Hooper

I was always obsessed with finding truly researched images to add authenticity, out of that came something totally contemporary and modern. Research is very key to my process because over and over again, reality provides more interesting images than you could have invented.

Tom Jones

My real name was Thomas Jones Woodward, so I dropped the Woodward.

Tom Hodgkinson

Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.

Tom Hodgkinson

Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this by examining the profile of Zuckerberg's fellow board members who, unlike him, are a very interesting bunch and, I suspect, the real power behind the poster boy.

Tom Hodgkinson

Alongside my 'no email' policy, I resolve to make better use of the wonderful Royal Mail, and send letters and postcards to people. There is a huge pleasure in writing a letter, putting it in an envelope and sticking the stamp on it. And huge pleasure in receiving real letters, too.

Tom Hodgkinson

What I've found in working less is you start to get a bit more involved in the more real politics, which is local politics that affect what's going on in your own community.

Toni Morrison

I don't think I knew any of my father's friends - male friends - by their real names. I remember them only by their nicknames.