Aaron Koblin
Aaron Koblin

I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.

Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami

Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.

Akshaye Khanna
Akshaye Khanna

If you make an authentic political film, which talks of real people and real events, in a politically conscious country like India, it is but natural that people will react to it in different ways and there will be a collage of opinions.

Alan Arkin
Alan Arkin

I don't live in L.A. on purpose because I don't wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people, in order to inform what I'm doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.

Alan Alda
Alan Alda

All I've ever tried to do is play real people.

Alan Vega
Alan Vega

I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they're real people, ya know?

Alexandra C. Pelosi
Alexandra C. Pelosi

Towns have to evolve. Towns have to grow up. But not at the expense of the real people.

Alexandra Kleeman
Alexandra Kleeman

We talk about characters in literature as though they were built on the model of the real person, but then I often think that the way we present ourselves as real people is based heavily on the way literary psychologies are stylized, and I wonder how the two forms of realistic personhood feed on or fulfill each other.

Alia Shawkat
Alia Shawkat

There are definitely a lot of roles I didn't get based off of the way I look, but I'm not going to let that stop me. I'm going to write stories for myself or work with filmmakers who want to tell stories about real people.

Alice Oswald
Alice Oswald

If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything.