“'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.” RealRealitySocialFictionSituationOrganizationReal LifeStatementsWire Author:Lance Reddick
“The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?” IfsStillsRealSelfTodayFictionCarElementsNormalStandardsHollywoodScience FictionDrivingReal LifeWhat IfDefining1960sKnightsRidersScience Fiction MovieDriving Cars Author:Sebastian Thrun
“...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care about, who have no self-respect and no respect for anybody or any institution....And I don't want to sound preachy or Victorian, but I'm tired of amorality in fiction and in real life. Immorality is a fascinating human dilemma that creates suspense for the readers and tension for the characters, but where is the tension in an amoral situation? When people have no personal code, nothing is threatening and nothing is meaningful.” PeopleThinkingWantWritingHumansPersonsBookRealSelfCharacterCareSoundFictionSituationReaderPaperInstitutionsTiredDon't CareMeaningfulReal LifeSuspenseCodeTensionSelf RespectFascinatingThreateningDollsDilemmaI'm TiredImmoralityVictorianNo RespectBooks And MoviesAmorality Author:Olive Ann Burns
“I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts in many ways, and I think that I can talk for many people that fiction moves us more than real life, it certainly helps us to set forth on this a journey of a utopia, which can never be achieved.” PeopleThinkingWayI CanRealFactsHelpingFilmMovingFictionSeeingJourneyChangedReal LifeUtopia Author:Gael Garcia Bernal
“It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.” RealSelfFeelingsSeemsFoundFictionTeachNovelCircumstancesLessonsReal LifeFancySelf RespectEphemeralDelicacy Author:Madame de Stael
“Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things.” LifeRealFictionReal LifeRight Thing Book:The Resort Source: The Resort
“You can write a whole fiction, and you're talking to people who have gone through that, in real life. But the truth of it is that when you're talking to those people, you don't care about your movie anymore. You just want to hear about what they have gone through. You want all of the details. It's amazing.” PeopleWantWritingRealWholeCareFictionTalkingGoneDetailsDon't CareReal Life Author:Alfonso Cuaron
“I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.” WantWritingRealEnoughFictionReal LifeConfusing Author:Aaron Belz
“In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the best romances, love is the final, secret ingredient that turns mere mortals into heroes and heroines.” RealMightRomanceTurnsLove IsSecretFictionWorstInspireHeroMereFinalsFoolishReal LifeMortalsLove LifeIngredientsThreateningHeroinesRomance LoveHeroes And HeroinesMere Mortals Author:Sarah MacLean
“While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in my character's lives, is probably a good thing!” RealCharacterStoriesInspirationLife IsGivenFictionGood ThingsReal LifeTurmoil Author:Nicholas Sparks
“There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.” ThinkingRealFictionNovelBalanceReal LifeConfusionRhythmRescue Author:Don DeLillo
“How do you document real life, when real life's getting more like fiction each day.” RealFictionReal LifeEach DayDocuments Author:Jonathan Larson
“Since the show [Helix] is based in real science, there are real-life epidemic scares out there, throughout history, where there are these huge viruses that have wiped out huge populations. So, we're dealing with something that the CDC hasn't seen before, but it comes from a virus. That's something that's based in reality, and then you put the science fiction on that and it's a really interesting combination.” RealShowsRealityInterestingFictionHugeScience FictionPopulationReal LifeCombinationScareVirusesReally InterestingEpidemics Author:Kyra Zagorsky
“I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters.” PeopleThinkingArtRealCharacterFictionFashionInspireDirectorsMusicianReal LifeInventionArtisticDesignerFashion DesignerSpirited Author:Marc Jacobs
“In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.” WantDifferentRealStoriesLife IsFictionReal Life Author:Katherine Center
“"The Wolfpack" is a real life clash of life and fiction and the saving power of brotherhood and make-believe.” BelieveRealFictionReal LifeSavingBrotherhoodClashMake Believe Author:James Franco
“The big thing is it's a domestic drama. Everything else in science fiction tends to be high-concept. Really for the last 40 years or so I think sci-fi's been a little cold and a little inhuman quite often - certainly since the 1980s - and I really wanted to do something that almost felt like a regular, real-life drama but just set it in a sci-fi setting. I think the best stuff is always like that.” ThinkingYearsLittlesRealBigsWantedLastsFeltStuffFictionColdDramaConceptsScience FictionReal LifeSettingSettingsSci FiBig ThingsInhumanDrama Life Author:Mark Millar
“I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.” WritingDifferentRealWantedFictionReal LifeImaginative Author:Danielle Trussoni
“I'm all about nonfiction. I rarely read fiction. I like to read about things that really happened, facts, real life situations. That's what inspires me.” RealFactsFictionSituationHappenedInspireReal LifeNonfiction Author:Phil Keoghan