“I thought it would fit a niche. I didn't anticipate, nor do I think anybody did, that it would become this global phenomenon, the way that it has. The critics have been so kind and favorable, it has really garnered such wonderful praise, and the numbers have been through the roof. It's actually been quite surreal. I'm still pinching myself because it's amazing. For me, we went to Atlanta and we spent our summer shooting this little zombie show, and it was ours. It was our sweet little zombie show [The Walking Dead], and the world has embraced us.” ThinkingWorldWayKindLittlesHas BeensStillsShowsNumbersWonderfulSweetFitWalkingSummerPraiseCriticsShootingPhenomenonRoofZombieSurrealAnticipateNicheAtlantaWalking DeadPinching Author:Laurie Holden
“I don't shoot kittens with balls of wool. I don't shoot sunsets. What draws me? Ironic, surreal, unexplained, timely moments.” MomentsDrawsBallsSunsetIronicSurrealKittenTimelyWoolUnexplained Author:Graham Nash
“I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to a form for the surreal. I have been called a preacher - but, in reality, I'm more generally philosophical. I have never made an abstracted photograph without content. An educated background in Zen influences all of my photographs. It has been said that my work resembles, more closely than any photographer, Le Douanier Rousseau - working in a fairly isolated area and feeding mostly on myself - I feel that I am a primitive photographer.” FeelsHas BeensMadeSaidDifferentRealityFormGroupsInfluenceAreasPhilosophicalPhotographerPhotographBackgroundsEducatedMannersIsolatedPreacherPrimitiveFeedingSurreal Author:Ralph Eugene Meatyard
“I realized early on that artifice attracted me to an image more than any other quality - I mean artifice in the sense of staging and heightened color and exaggerated lighting, not a surreal or fictive moment... I think the lighting and feeling of Cinemascope, the movies I saw as a kid, always stayed with me as a kind of glorious vision of reality.” ThinkingKindMeanMomentsFeelingsRealityKidsQualityVisionSawsColorI RealizedGloriousSurrealLightingExaggeratedArtificeStaging Author:Laurie Simmons
“It is so surreal to come into a shop and see pictures of myself everywhere and hear my album playing.” AlbumsShopsSurrealPictures Of Myself Author:Michelle McManus
“New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.” ForceSituationNew YorkEndlessSurreal Author:Tom Waits
“Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.” QualityViolenceBrutalSurrealSpaghetti Author:Quentin Tarantino
“American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.” LittlesArtSelfUseBehindsEthicsMetaphorWork EthicSurrealIndulgenceExaggerationSurrealismPuritanSelf Indulgence Author:John Updike
“Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void.” FeelsMindSoulEndsBodyLastsFilmRolesSadnessReadyMonthsTerribleLeavingFollowingYour BodyYour SoulShootingVoidSurrealNot ReadyLast Day Author:Daniel Day-Lewis
“I don't think American family sitcoms are mean. I guess I really love 'Arrested Development.' I guess they are quite mean in that, but that is also a very silly, surreal, absurd show as well, and it has got a heart as well.” ThinkingWellsHeartMeanShowsDevelopmentSillyAbsurdSurrealArrestedSitcomAmerican Family Author:Simon Bird
“My spirit had been broken a bit over the years by my having to work on films I didn't love. Hollywood's a surreal place, and it really is an assault on your spirit.” YearsFilmSpiritBitsBrokenHollywoodAssaultSurreal Author:Naomi Watts
“A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the fiasco's architects acknowledge that fact.” FactsIraqObviousAcknowledgeArchitectDisgustingSurrealFacetsLagFiasco Author:George Will
“When I'm drafting, I suppose it's an intuitive process - figuring out when something just has a surreal glaze on it and when it grapples with something that could threaten a character's day-to-day reality.” CharacterRealityProcessDay To DayIntuitiveSurrealDrafting Author:Karen Russell
“I wanted to literalize the surreal here. Those are my favorite kinds of stories. I love when Gabriel García Márquez does that, for instance - it adds to the joy, dares you to believe the unbelievable. And why not: so much of life is so dreamlike, so strange, so absurd.” BelieveKindDoeStoriesWantedLife IsJoyStrangeAddMy FavoriteDareAbsurdInstanceWhy NotUnbelievableSurrealGabriel Author:Porochista Khakpour
“It's very cool for me to be able to get in an airplane and fly for fourteen hours and show up in a place I never thought I'd ever be and have kids in the same room singing these songs I'd written so far away. To me, that's so surreal.” ShowsKidsAbleSongHoursRoomsWrittenSingingAirplaneFar AwaySurrealFourteenVery Cool Author:Adam Young
“At least for me personally, drugs aren't an essential part of having a surreal experience, or what you might call a higher experience.” MightHigherDrugEssentialsSurreal Author:Panda Bear
“I definitely write about a lot of dreamy, surreal stuff. I do end up going to a surreal world with my music, but I also like the idea of there being really real stuff as well.” WorldWritingWellsIdeasRealEndsStuffReal WorldBeing RealSurrealDreamyReal Stuff Author:Ellie Goulding
“Every so often I'll go back down to earth and I'll make reference to a phone or a house or something, something that's a bit more real. But I suppose what that does, is it puts you in a surreal place but also my music doesn't get too carried away in that sense, which I quite like.” DoeRealEarthHouseBitsPhonesSurrealDown To EarthCarried Away Author:Ellie Goulding
“I just like a great song. I just wanted to be this true reflection of what is in my heart and it ended up becoming my life which was kind of surreal, but I do enjoy writing for other people.” PeopleWritingHeartKindWantedSongEnjoyBecomingMy HeartReflectionSurreal Author:The Rocket Summer
“I had no idea the amount of people who even knew who I was. Suddenly, they were coming up and saying, "You're my favorite artist." Very surreal. After years of trying to get work, and then coming here and being able to meet some of the fans of Array.” PeopleTryingYearsIdeasAbleArtistFansAmountMy FavoriteNo IdeaSurrealFavorite Artist Author:Eric Wight
“A lot of times, identifying with a character in a book or a movie makes me feel really vulnerable. Especially in books, it's like being able to see an amplified version of yourself, and it's very surreal.” FeelsBookCharacterAbleVersionsVulnerableSurrealIdentifying Author:Haley Pullos
“It is a surreal life living on a television series set, and especially when I go out in public. I have people who recognize me and will come up to me, saying how much they enjoy seeing me, asking for a picture, and I still think to myself, "Uh, why?"” PeopleThinkingStillsEnjoySeeingTelevisionAskingSeriesCome UpReal LifeSurrealLiving OnLife Living Author:Atticus Shaffer
“Ivo van Hove is directing The Crucible, and rehearses in quite an unusual way. We started rehearsals last week and dived straight into the first act, like, five minutes after we all turned up. No warm-ups. We were very intensely immersed in that whole world on day one. It was quite surreal because I've never done any theater before.” WorldWayFirstsDoneWholeLastsFiveWeekMinutesTheaterWarmWhole WorldUnusualFive MinutesVansRehearsalSurrealCrucible Author:Saoirse Ronan
“It's a surreal experience. During the first show, I was like, "Wow, I'm onstage with Ms. Tyson!" Everybody has been amazing, and the energy is really beautiful. I'm replacing my friend Condola, so everyone making sure that I'm OK has turned what could've been a very scary, nerve-racking and lonely experience into a supportive environment.” FirstsHas BeensShowsBeautifulEnergyEnvironmentMy FriendsLonelyScaryNervesWowSupportiveSurrealReally BeautifulTyson Author:Adepero Oduye
“As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: "Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B."” PeopleWritingSaidEyeFeetCompareDescriptionSurreal Author:Devendra Banhart
“We made basement practice songs.To have them presented in such a huge fashion today - like at Primavera, where it's thousands of people in a festival environment - is surreal. I never thought some of the songs would ever need to be projected at such a volume or to such a wide span of people.” PeopleNeedsMadeTodaySongPracticeEnvironmentFashionHugeWideVolumeFestivalsSurrealBasementsFashion Today Author:David Pajo
“It's a surreal thing because you are there and made up and dressed up as if you're making the film. You do the scene, which is going to be in the film, and I met him [Daniel Craig] and I'm working with the director, and so it is different to just a normal audition.” IfsMadeDifferentFilmMetsSceneDirectorsNormalAuditionsSurrealDressed Up Author:Gemma Arterton
“I just love the ideal of the surreal quality of putting it on a shoe.” QualityIdealsShoesSurreal Author:Jeremy Scott
“Survivor Series is something that was very surreal to me to be a part of, but now, I just want to do it again.” WantSeriesSurvivorSurreal Author:CM Punk
“I did shoot a movie called 'Mother's Day', and I really can't wait for everybody to see that. I had so much fun shooting that with Jennifer Aniston, which was kind of surreal in itself.” KindMotherFunWaitingShootingMothers DaySurrealJennifer Author:Shay Mitchell
“A few years ago I appeared on GLEE and, Jane Lynch and I did a remake of the song that was very popular - someone told me it was in the Top 100 when it was released. First, walking on the set of GLEE the day we filmed it was surreal as they had recreated the entire original set from the music video. It was bizarre - but fun.” YearsFirstsSongFunWalkingYears AgoOriginalsVideoBizarreJaneSurrealRemakesGleeVery PopularTop 100 Author:Olivia Newton-John
“To be labeled as a strong woman when you feel vulnerable is a strange place to be, because then you're, like, "Oh, I have to be strong now. But I don't feel strong. I feel alienated. I feel isolated. I feel that things are very surreal, and they're not authentic, and this is all just very overwhelming."” FeelsStrongStrangeVulnerableOverwhelmingIsolatedStrong WomenSurrealStrange Places Author:Annie Lennox
“There's Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 1 and 2, and Ratatouille. It's super surreal. We've been working on this for eight years nonstop. Every week we've had a Sausage Party meeting, and now it won't be on our to-do list anymore. It's like the end of summer camp.” YearsEndsChancePartyWeekSummerMeetingsEightListsCampsSurrealSausageCloudyEnd Of SummerSummer CampMeatballs Author:Evan Goldberg
“There's going to be a Halloween costume [of lavash from Sausage Party]. The whole thing is just so ridiculous. It's nice. It's silly, and it's surreal.” WholePartyNiceRidiculousSillyHalloweenCostumesSurrealSausageHalloween Costume Author:David Krumholtz
“I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps - I'm not kidding you, to utter these words aloud is so surreal to me - but to say, "I had to give up my Super Bowl tickets for my all-expense paid research trip to Argentina's wine country," it was like, who's life is this? It was splendid, and the nice thing was that they renewed my contract for another year.” ThinkingGivingYearsCountryMomentsKidsLife IsNiceGiving UpResearchPaidWineExpensesContractsBowlsTicketsUnemploymentStampsSplendidSurrealNice ThingsSuper BowlArgentinaAnother YearFood StampsSurreal Moments Author:Adam Richman
“That was another incredible thing: the opportunity to be in Greenland, a place I had read about in NatGeo a decade before. Suddenly I was staying there and hiking there, and we took a mini iceberg out of the water and chipped it up and used it as ice cubes and made cocktails with it. It's surreal.” MadeUsedOpportunityWaterIncrediblesDecadesIceStayingHikingSurrealCocktailsCubesIcebergGreenland Author:Adam Richman
“Because of Walter, we did it the other way around. We also worked with an awesome sound designer named Will Patterson who just worked for four years on Terrence Malick's films. He did a lot of conceptual work to make the soundscapes in the jungle have this surreal quality, to blend these two films because a lot of the images are about this parallelism between the movies. The sound was very integral to fusing everything.” WayYearsTwoFilmSoundQualityFourDesignerFour YearsJungleSurrealParallelism Author:Sam Pressman
“My life feels so surreal. That's why I've made a shtick of being me.” FeelsMadeSurrealBeing Me Author:Miley Cyrus
“I'm both kinds of a person; I have a side of me that's very light and very optimistic and finds everything surreal and hilarious, and then I have a side of me that's - I don't know what the right word is - tormented or just feels very overwhelmed.” KnowsFeelsKindPersonsLightSidesOptimisticOverwhelmedSurrealRight Words Author:Regina Spektor
“Even my nighttime dreams are very, very rooted in reality. They just start to become surreal, little by little.” LittlesDreamRealityRootedSurrealNighttime Author:Hiro Murai
“Ethan [Hawke] just - they got along great. He got to act with a dog, for real, and it felt like Jumpy was acting with him. It was a surreal thing to watch. When you watch the movie [Valley of Violence], you just kind of accept it. But if you do think about how we show - there's a dog and a movie star interacting - and you buy it. That's crazy.” IfsThinkingKindRealShowsStarsFeltActingAcceptingWatchesViolenceCrazyDogValleysMovie StarSurrealInteracting Author:Ti West
“I talked to Woody Allen for half an hour or something. It was pretty incredible. He really went into lots of detail about the story [in Blue Jasmin] and what actually happened. Just talking to him is very surreal.” StoriesHoursHalfTalkingHappenedBlueIncrediblesDetailsSurrealWoodyTalking To Him Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.” IfsThinkingIssuesCoreSurrealRelatable Author:Charlie Kaufman
“There's an element of clowning and entertainment to Trump, that makes it surreal and hard to understand to what extent he is pretending to be a fascist or an authoritarian.” HardTrumpElementsEntertainmentPretendingSurrealFascistsClowning Author:Jonathan Chait
“Not only is America a country where torture is now policy. It's now outsourced. It's given to companies at a cost-plus basis. It's a triple whammy of surreal, absolute madness.” CountryAmericaGivenCompanyPolicyCostBasesMadnessAbsolutesTorturePlusSurrealOutsourced Author:John Cusack
“The real news has gotten more surreal and absurd, and my fake news, if you want to call it that, has gotten more plausible. And at some point, those two trend lines crossed.” IfsWantTwoRealLinesNewsAbsurdFakeTrendsSurrealPlausible Author:Andy Borowitz
“It's such a surreal experience, being shot out of the cannon for any kind of first season show. It all seems very dreamlike.” FirstsKindShowsSeemsShotsSeasonsSurrealCannons Author:Bryan Fuller
“I really set out to do this traditional looking and traditional sounding multi-cam sitcom, but then make the world as elastic as an animated show could be. Make the world as surreal as we wanted it to be.” WorldShowsWantedTraditionalSurrealAnimatedSitcom Author:John Mulaney
“It was fun to play that surreal high school life [in Jawbreaker]. I was a huge fan of the movie Heathers. But I think at the time - you know, when the movie was released, it was a very limited release, and it didn't do very well at the box office. And I love the fact that it has found legs and that the audience has kept growing and growing over the years.” ThinkingKnowsYearsWellsPlayFactsSchoolFoundFunAudienceGrowingFansHugeOfficeHigh SchoolBoxesLegsReleaseSurrealBox OfficeSchool LifeHeathers Author:Julie Benz
“I'm not really a person who loves things that are surreal or not grounded in real life or reality. I like that - I want to find something that I can relate to and then maybe do a little bit more and embellish.” WantLittlesPersonsI CanRealRealityBitsLittle BitReal LifeRelateGroundedSurreal Author:Pamela Adlon