John Cho Quotes

You have to understand the separation between what exists in the print media and what exists in reality. It's important to never lose track of reality.

Movies are different from real life.

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

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

Imagine a mosaic picture of a house in the country: lots of red and blue and yellow and black and brown and white and a dozen different shades of green tiles which make a beautiful picture if you stand back far enough. All the little red squares are true - true things, true places, true feelings. But the red squares aren't the picture. All the rest of it is lies and stories, often within the same sentence.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

It gets scary when you're dealing with people who don't know how to separate fact from fiction.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

Some stories are true that never happened.

History is a fiction which actually happened; fiction is history which could have happened.

I have learned that it is just as well to avoid even the appearance of something which you prefer not to have published as a fact! So many things are published as facts in any case which have no foundation in them whatsoever, that I don't suppose it really matters! For fair minded people usually wait until they verify a statement before they believe it, and those who believe it without verification are the ones who want to believe it!

There's truth and then there's fiction - I think truth does exist and you can present it.

Reality, by itself, becomes a story by Philip K. Dick.

This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

I was told that television will be very difficult. But I think everyone just hypes it.

We must all learn how to separate reality from fantasy.

What I want people to consider is that no matter what it is we want to believe, and no matter what story it is we want to jam the world into, the truth is the truth.

CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.