Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

Both individuals and societies tell themselves stories to simplify and make sense of the messy chaos of reality.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

The great thing about fiction is you can talk about things without being didactic about them, but hopefully forge a connection with people and an understanding about a shared humanity that tells its own story.

Storytelling is the oldest form of entertainment there is. From campfires and pictograms - the Lascaux cave paintings may be as much as twenty thousand years old - to tribal songs and epic ballads passed down from generation to generation, it is one of the most fundamental ways humans have of making sense of the world.

Facts are often complicated.

Nothing is ever off the table at 'The Fosters' as long as it's based in reality.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

Fact is richer than diction.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush.

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.

Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.