Real Quotes

American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is – along with Jazz – the great American art form. And cinema in a very real sense created the American identity that has been exported around the world.

The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money.

I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I’ve seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they’re told they are supposed to be playing comedy.

Our whole intention was to make a record of songs that we grew up with and change them up a little bit, but we kind of stumbled on writing “Joseph’s Lullaby.”

This is their real life – texting about trivial things; listening to numbing music on their private headphones. The machines block everything out – you create your own little trivial world.

I know real people, whose names I could tell you, people I know who have said “I’ve stopped buying the New York Times.” Why? Because their editorial position has filtered, has leached into the news pages.

In a world where celebrity equals talent, and where make-believe is called reality, it is most important to have real love, truth and stability in your life.

But, Christ, there’s a difference between exotic and foreign, isn’t there? Exotic means you know how to use your foreignness, or you make yourself a little foreign in order to appear exotic. Real foreign is a little scary, believe me.

I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real. And I want life in every word to the extent that it’s absurd.

A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men.