We must never let a blizzard of statistics blind us to the real lives and people behind them.
Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened.
Any president's actions have real consequences in real people's lives.
Housewives' is real, yes. We say what we're thinking at the time. But filming our real lives is a huge production that takes a long time. Sometimes you have to sit there for hours and hours while the show is being produced.
We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.
The plain truth is, 'Fruitvale Station' was made totally outside the Hollywood studio system, and every ounce of the picture feels authentic. The lives of the people involved in the movie will never be the same.
Try to understand that behind every headline, there are individuals, families, and communities.
You can have the right kind of experience and the wrong kind of experience. Mine is rooted in the real lives of real people, and it will bring real results if we have the courage to change.
We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.
I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.
I do think people see us on WWE so often as just characters. They forget we have real lives and we go through similar situations as the average person.
I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that they were writing about, which I found a very peculiar thing 'cos all our lives are equally real, and it's just a matter of depicting them and talking about them.
I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.
