Jonah Hill Quotes

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

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.

I'm not really a person who loves things that are surreal or not grounded in real life or reality. I like that - I want to find something that I can relate to and then maybe do a little bit more and embellish.

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

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

I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

I come out of real life.

I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.

One of the most important things to me is to make things real, not have models who are perfectly groomed or clothes that are too perfect. It all has to have a twist because that's how people live.

I want to try and portray characters that are in real life, that you see day-to-day. If I were to just stay in my little village in Wales, I would have gotten a very small taste of a very big plate.

True stories are way more interesting.

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

I've just always been interested in alter-naturalism and seeing if you can make real life interesting enough to be dramatic without enhancing it. Like, could you make a movie or write a play in which there's no compression of time, there's no enhanced event, it's just real life?

Over the years, I have come to realize that no matter how satisfying fiction is, it becomes that much better when it actually happened.

I'm really interested in real people in extraordinary situations. The detail and reality to that.

Being in that other world of media, TV, Hollywood, it's not a real world. For me going back to work, it was a pleasure to get back to the world I knew. That's the real world. That's normal for me.

I find that there's so much funny stuff in real life, and I am much more interested in super grounded, real stuff, so now I just want things to feel real and authentic.

I write from what I take to be the realist's point of view, looking at life as it really is - or the way I see it to be.

Even the two novels I've written were based on true stories. It's how I'm wired - real life is fascinating and fantastical enough. The kind of journalism I did unpeeled lids from cans otherwise sealed.

I like to keep my films close to reality.

Documentary is reality. It shows the truth.

You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.

I often find in the film world, that it's very self-referring. If you talk to someone about films, they talk about them in terms of other films - rather than as something that happened to them in their life. And I'm really keen to get back to film as a reference to real things, not necessarily to other films.

What was important for 'Broken Bread' to do was show real life.