Cinematic Reality Quotes

Reality's its own thing. And I'm not really into reality that much. I'm into this cinematic stylized reality that can comment on reality. It's like the most beautiful parts of reality and the saddest parts, but it's none of this middle ground.

Everyone knows that a movie is false. But if as filmmakers we give the audience too many reasons to lose the suspension of disbelief, I believe we're working our way down a hole.

I love documentary because it's alive.

I feel like I'm living in a movie.

I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.

In editing, you really face what the movie is. When you shoot it, you have this illusion that you're making the masterpieces that you're inspired by. But when you finally edit the movie, the movie is just a movie, so there is always a hint of disappointment, particularly when you see your first cut.

People say they make movies to show what 'really happens.' But they only show what they choose to show.

In terms of so-called fly-on-the-wall documentaries, there's a claim that the camera is a transparent window into a pre-existing reality. What really is happening is that the film crew and the subjects are collaborating to simulate a reality in which they pretend the camera is not present.

People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.

I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

the movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera; the movie is the reality of the movie moving from reality to the camera.

And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.

The power of movies lies in the fact that it enables the viewer to enter the reality, to some extent, of the characters.

For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality.

I feel like we're going to see a lot more movies that mix documentary style with fiction, more along the lines of 'District 9.'

I would say movies all have their own world or reality they're built in.

The CGI landscape is another world. It has its own physical laws; it can defy gravity. But surely the wonder of cinematic space is that it is wedded to reality?