You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
All the more a cheesy musical seems fake, so it requires a level of honesty to be injected or an acknowledgement of… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Real life is generally much duller and inevitably sadder, most of the time. In film, you control everything that's going on, so… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It's time to start recognizing that not all escapist entertainment is created equal. And that some of it isn't even entertainment. "Miss… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Spread the glad tidings that it will not disappoint Miss Heyer's many admirers. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with gray iron ore dust. Even the beach is completely littered with… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a pilgrim, but… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People want to see big, escapist fare. They don't want to be challenged to think. — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I think theres escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If its done right, you can craft an… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense.... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
We have to accept as a society that games are not escapist. They really do change us. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative,… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia.… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
