Paul Rust Quotes

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

cliches are truisms and all truisms are true

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

Real life is far more complicated than fiction.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

I think the best comedy comes from stuff that's based in reality.

I come out of real life.

It's important not to lay in a bubble bath drinking champagne. It's important to take part in what life's all about.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

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.

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.

Let me tell you what, reality is better than any script you could ever write.

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.

I like to keep my films close to reality.

I think real life is weirder than fiction.

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

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

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