Ellen Page Quotes

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.

We talk about the influence of the media on public opinion. But reality has some influence on public opinion too.

Reality is often measurably different from the perception projected through the media. But the speed of that projection, and thus of that perception and of the public’s response thereto, is such that policy must now be made in response not to the reality but to the perception. Thus the media have the power (consciously or not) to create a perception that can force a response which objectively becomes "reality" but which may have nothing to do with the original "real" reality. This contributes not only to the appearance of chaos but also to the making of crises.

I think Hollywood acts like followers of culture and is constantly seeking to follow trends.

Our culture reflects back what is true. It doesn't always reflect it back reliably. It can distort things.

I always say 'The Bachelor' doesn't create and drive social issues. We're a microcosm of what's happening in the world.

I would think, as an artist, it's inescapable that you'll be affected by the world around you.

What appears on the screen is what people see. Everything else is just interpretation.

You've got to remember that films don't lead the way. People think that films are trying to lead society. Mostly, they're reflecting the moods and thoughts that are going on in the country or around the world.

Movies mirror the times, they do not create them.

In this world we live in now, with a 24/7 news cycle, perception can sometimes be more powerful than reality.

Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!

Sports will always be important in global culture, and so fashion, as a reflection of cultural trends, will always incorporate influences from sports.

I think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization.

I'm interested in such things as the difference between how we perceive the world and what the world turns out to be. The difference is between the stories we tell others and the stories we tell ourselves. There is a wonderful Russian saying, which I use as the epigraph of one of my novels, which goes, He lies like an eyewitness. Which is very sly, clever and true.

When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.

If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what then? The answer, of course, was very simple. He had a whole board of circuits for dealing with exactly this problem, in fact this was the very heart of his function. He would continue to believe in it whatever the facts turned out to be, what else was the meaning of Belief? The Door would still be there, even if the Door was not.

I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need a point of departure, even if it's only a speck of dust or a flash of light.

If television viewing choices serve as a valid measure of our society, they who choose evil surely are more numerous than they who choose good.

How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

I realized that everyone in Western society, in some weird way, believes that they've had the experience of producing feature films.

[...] the inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race [...]

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?