Kim Young-ha Quotes

Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how confused we can become about what is real.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

The part of my brain that was responsible for creating the world I lived and moved in and for taking the raw data that came in through my senses and fashioning it into a meaningful universe: that part of my brain was down, and out. And yet despite all of this, I had been alive, and aware, truly aware, in a universe characterized above all by love, consciousness, and reality. There was, for me, simply no arguing this fact. I knew it so completely that I ached.

The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they may be stark, even profound.

Reality is a question of perspective.

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.

Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.

What is accidented is reality.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

Stories are a different kind of true.

Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.