Simon Pegg Quotes

In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.

I always say you don't want to get it right, you want to get it true.

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

Simulations directly relate to the process of and complications in photography. They also overtly create layers of fantasies, myths and interventions... The simulation confuses the idea of a truth. I've always been interested in this kind of theater and illusion at the foundation of belief.

I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it-you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world.

VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth)

CGI is to me like watching a cartoon. It can be effective, if it's done well. A lot of times you don't feel any real risk. You're watching a bunch of computer-generated graphics.

It's a large as life and twice as natural

I think everything needs to be played real, for reality's sake, for truth. And that is the drama and the comedy. When you do that, it's funnier. And when you do that, you really do hit the emotional beats. I do it the same way as I do a drama. I just play it for truth, and then maybe have a little bit of fun with it sometimes.

I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.

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

You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin

I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.

What is not in nature can never be true.

Realism is a corruption of reality.

This is not a just image, this is just an image.

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.

I was having the surreal experience of having myself show myself around my office and bullpen.” “Oh! My desk. I could’ve sat at my desk. I could’ve sat at your desk.” “No.” “It’s a vid set.” “Even then, no.

Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.

I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality, he will not achieve even superficial credibility, let alone authenticity and inner truth.