Jeri Ryan Quotes

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

The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.

I like to write about things that don't reflect exactly on my life.

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

I have a longing for fiction, to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

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

I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.

I don't quite operate within the realist mode. I kind of push the stories out towards the cusp of believability - that's the area of interest for me.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

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

If a fantasy, if a story can help you feel something, I think that's really cool.

My life isn't very racy or exciting so I make things up, tell stories. I like telling stories.

People don't like reality, they like crazy stories.

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.

Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

Writers can take offense when someone asks what's real or autobiographical in our work because, to us, that's not what counts. The bits taken from life are tiny scales on the dragon's tail - what about that whole beautiful writhing, fire-breathing dragon?

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.