Adam Curtis Quotes
Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.
Adam Curtis
Quotes to Explore
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The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.
Warren Spector
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Reality is what you can count on.
Dallas Willard
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
Taylor Sheridan
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
Natsuo Kirino
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When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.
Uzo Aduba
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe
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In a lot of action films, a lot of guys are driving muscle cars or vintage cars, whereas in reality, a lot of getaway drivers would actually choose, like, commuter cars and find a way to blend into freeway traffic as quickly as possible.
Edgar Wright
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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
Parker Palmer
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I have lots of favorite shows, but not reality! I don't like reality TV so much. I'm saddened by people who don't show respect to each other and to themselves. It's horrible. Unfortunately, that's demonstrated a lot on reality television.
Barbara Mandrell
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The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.
Beau Willimon
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I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power over us that it does, is the fact that for thousands of years we have spent eight hours every night in a 'cinematic' dream-state, and so are familiar with this version of reality.
Walter Murch
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I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.
Naveen Andrews
