Ernest Cline Quotes

Everybody in the world has problems, and the nice thing about entertainment is you get to forget about those problems and have a good time for a couple of hours.

Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.

Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed.

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.

People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.

Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious.

The way the world is, I think a silly evening in the theatre is a good thing, to take our minds off terror.

It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.

Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK.

'Blind Date' was my lifeline. It was 90 minutes when I could forget about everything, forget about the world.

We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.

We know there's no use in getting miserable, so we go out on the town instead!

In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it.

Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.

I really like dumb romantic comedies; that's the way I can turn my brain off and let go.

When I'm working on something and need to take a little break, I'll go down and play some video games.

I don't care how many times I play 'Angry Birds.' When you have the world's cares on your shoulders and you fling those little birds at those rotten pigs, then the whole world just melts away.

I like my game a lot.

Playing games is the best time of your life, and the more games you get, the better it is.

That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful.

[Sometimes] I sit in front of my [gaming] console with my headphones on and I play. I love that. It's a nice form of escapism.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.

I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.

People who want to see the beauty of nature from motorboats and automobiles would obviously be just as pleased, and as fully recreated, at a drive-in movie.