Matt Reeves Quotes

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process, we discover our shared identity.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.

Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

My hope is that the music will serve as a metaphor for the actions taken by the inhabitants of this wonderful planet as a call for world harmony on all levels.

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.

Love is possible as life is possible.

A border is not only a separation; it’s a connection.

To have a National Endowment for the Arts is to sanction creativity, to provide space to support the poetic, and to give meaning to struggle, hope and life. The artist interprets and represents for us perspectives so that we can question, focus and reexamine our worlds, to imagine the possible and the impossible. The culture and arts of America are our greatest asset.

I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.

Time is always a component of place; you can't really talk about where without talking about when.

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

I think hope and magic are probably connected.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

As a kid, I loved the idea of alternate possibilities, roads not taken, that sort of thing - and I think seeing the 'Adventure Time' universe rendered by the artists in those stories will scratch that same itch really well.

I just keep getting inspired to believe that dreams come true and anything can happen, 'cause I've watched so many impossible things happen.

I'm about possibilities and about surprises and the life force.

It is funny how we talk about nature as this separate entity when we are nature, and nature is us.

I can't be separated from nature. I am one of her faces.