Life Imitating Art Quotes

[I]nstead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't real life be more like the movies?"

I always say that cinema reflects life, not the other way round.

How do you document real life, when real life's getting more like fiction each day.

Every character I do is based on someone I know.

How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.

Does art imitate life, or does life imitate TV?

I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.

So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around.

It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame.

It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.

Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent?

'Monday Night Raw' has been a huge part of my life, and when you think about it, I mean, life imitated art. That is how I met my husband.

They say the movies should be more like life; I think life should be more like the movies.

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?