Deals Quote by John Grierson

What is real is beyond all reach.

— Anonymous

I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if…

— Gus Van Sant

When you make a documentary, you have to adapt to what reality imposes upon you.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

“Ah," Daniel said, glancing up from his stack. "Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset…

— Tana French

Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on…

— Alan Moore

“Reality is non-directional, layered, and potential- all things at once and non-real in the sense that real is an unknown, so "real" is undefined…

— Laren Grey Umphlett

“We tend to treat labels as real, rather than as representations of reality”

— Dewight R. Middleton

“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.”

— Slavoj Žižek

When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.

— Mario Van Peebles

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff…

— Charlie Kaufman

How much of what we call 'reality' is actually out there or rather within our own head?

— Philip K. Dick

Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual…

— Joe Berlinger