Michael Crichton Quotes

Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.

That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful.

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.

I often want to go to the movies and see something that transports you beyond the infinite.

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

Certainly, those of us in the entertainment industry, we are part of creating fear in people - 'fear' for me stands for 'false evidence appearing real.' We create fantasy, and in certain ways that's wonderful because it allows people to escape. But it can suck people into wanting to achieve something that isn't real.

With action movies, that's just fun stuff for me. That's me being a kid again. Same with 'The Best of Me' and these romantic dramas. It's such a freedom from reality and social constructions. You get to just have fun and play and be in a movie.

Reality television paints a simple black-and-white world of good characters and bad characters; people we want to root for and people we want to see ruined. There is none of the gray ambiguity that colors real life. I no longer watch a lot of reality television, but sometimes I can't look away from 'Honey Boo Boo.' I just can't.

I like America. I think it's pretty cool. I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.

It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary.

It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.

It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances—of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped.

Viewers who invest two hours in a superhero movie often leave feeling entertained but somehow dumber.

When I watch movies - when I watch 'Star Wars' - you want to watch the fun characters, the diversions.

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.

I am a fairytale person and firmly believe that movies are made to entertain.

Movies are magical. It transcends a lot of hate or human faults in real life because of the fantasy of it all.

With larger-than-life films, you are lifted from your mundane, ordinary life because you empathise with the hero, and people see themselves in him.

It's hard for me to consider something in cinema or theater as something realistic.

I feel that entertainment happens when fact and fiction is balanced.