Justin Cartwright Quotes

There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.

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.

Perception is reality.

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What I'm writing is real.

I come out of real life.

I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

Our great cultural error is to assume that 'truth' arrives only through reductive theories.

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

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

Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.

I've found you don't have to make anything up. Reality is so complex and fascinating and horrible and beautiful.

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.

You can look at my books and not find particular joy on every page because, of course, what you want to write about is the difficulty of the human experience. You don't want to lie about things to make happy endings and weddings if they don't deserve to happen. But I would be lying if I didn't try to communicate some of the pleasure of being alive.

I like to keep my films close to reality.

Even fake news tries to convince us of its reality, but it does so mostly by appealing to your preconceived notions, your shared biases, or your prejudice. How to do the opposite? To create a sense of the real and then challenge your biases. I think that is my favourite aspect of writing, and that is what I've tried to do in 'The Lovers.'

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

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

I don't watch like Sci-fi or things like that, I'm always more like real life is so endlessly fascinating to me.