I repeat one of my mantras. 'This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was someone else.
Seeing it makes a magnificent abstract concept real, and reality tends to taint even the most wonderful ideas [...] - Caradoc
The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.
As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.
To live this life. To live it with wholeness and gratitude and trust. In the pain and the glory. In the mess and the grace. In the sacred and the desperation. This is the stuff of which real superheros are born.
Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.
In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.
Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.
I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.
It's a journey, it's a fight everyday. There was a real effort to stay in the program... So far this has been a very successful rehab.
I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have the real rock voices, to me.
There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendour, speak for itself.
Some people talk of Africa being a continent cursed not blessed with minerals, but the real curse is the leaders and politicians of Africa
We made this movie for $17, and nobody got anything. So it never dawned on me that we would get real people.
'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.
There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous.
For months I've been working on creating techniques to reproduce Swarovski crystals in sugar using the real stones to guide me.
In real football, I wouldn't want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you're nuts if you don't take him in fantasy.
