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I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

Oftentimes, reality is much worse than what you can put in a movie.

Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

Truth be told, I hear stories every day that would make you say, 'If you put that in a movie, you wouldn't believe it.' Real life really is kinda incredible; the stories from people's actual lives defy credibility. People's lives are messy, humans are messy, and they're flawed.

When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

People say they make movies to show what 'really happens.' But they only show what they choose to show.

Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.

In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it.