Adam Curtis Quotes
Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.
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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.
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Reality is what you can count on.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
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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.
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Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.
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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
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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.
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In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
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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.
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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.
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I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.
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The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality...
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I try to encourage people to look at our past in a critical way because as our education, we have a great, great history. But in reality we are poorest in ethics and philosophy, so I try to raise people’s consciousness on how we deal with our past.
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An artist sees that which does not yet exist. He or she imagines a future others cannot perceive. The artist - and the writer - reshapes reality so that it becomes even more vivid and lasting.
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I think of myself as a cover girl. But I would never do some kind of cheesy magazine.
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I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished.
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A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
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The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it must find a way of acknowledging this and framing its ambitions and interests accordingly. Instead of claiming the right to continuing primacy in east Asia, for example, it should seek to share that primacy with China.
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Documentaries shouldn't just reflect the world: they should try and explain why reality is like it is.
