Miriam Hopkins Quotes

Generally, a lot of the things people think are made up are real, a lot of the things people think are real are made up, a lot of the things people think are spontaneous are cleverly faked, and a lot of the things people think are fake are spontaneous.

I'm not interested in making 'black' movies. I'm interested in making movies that reflect reality as I perceive it.

Only love is real...everything else is illusion

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.

The truth, huh? No one wants to hear the truth. The truth is never sexy. But you... You are too goddamned sexy to be real. -Christian to Lissa

Society? Can we trust us? Doubt it. We're probably not even real, as was revealed in the popular documentary The Matrix. That bloke next door? Made of pixels. Your co-workers? Pixels. You? One pixel. One measly pixel. You haven't even got shoes, for Christ's sake.

I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

An awful lot of filmmaking and playmaking is taken over by marketers and publicists, who set about to tell people what to think. And people feel safer that way. But it's not safe, and the whole wonderful thing that cinema and filmmakers can contribute is to go into the not-safe land of real life.

[Show] business is tough. You never know who or what's real. It's tough when you get in this business, if you have no grounded foundation other than Hollywood, because this business isn't real. We're getting paid to do what we love, but it isn't real.

Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

The cinema is death at work.

I don't mind reminding people it's a movie, or that you're telling a story. Everybody knows this, but for some reason, we want to be real. I don't get it, I like the fakeness of my craft. I don't think the audience minds-they all know we're making a movie.

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

More often than not, things and people are as they appear.

But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.

Realism is a corruption of reality.

And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and changed into itself over and over.

And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

Real’ is a dirty word in this place.

Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself?