It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.
The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story actors music and camera design. When it works it can entertain move people and teach us all.
Over the past 20 years I have noticed that the most flexible dynamic inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which like it or not is modern reality.
You can design and create and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play fully within the definition of work and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.
The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced studied and carefully mapped.
For a culture that has such a problem with death we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot killed and blown up and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But the reality of it is that every day people die and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.
If you live a life of make-believe your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me sailing the open ocean is a real challenge because it's life or death.
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily but good deeds live forever.
We cast away priceless time in dreams born of imagination fed upon illusion and put to death by reality.
On my best days such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.
The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective it needs a lot of courage not to change or you will forget a certain reality and you will just take in consideration your view today.
There is hope in dreams imagination and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
Hope lies in dreams in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
Sometimes the other characters are too normal and then you start to be brought back to reality but then Luna shows up and she is just so funny and cool and honest and slightly mad and she's all that matters. She is 100% true. She puts on no shows because she is so comfortable with herself.
The truth is we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool but that's not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. That's the reality of it.
You know you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever ' Brian De Palma handsome young god... he in reality is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices making people laugh.
I don't watch reality TV. I'm cool.
People are on their computers more than watching TV because you can only watch voyeur TV which is basically what reality shows are for so long.
Electronic aids particularly domestic computers will help the inner migration the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
On the other hand in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day both as a reality and as an issue it is clear that language assumes a new importance.
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.
I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism not being able to see one's face not being able to have some sense of communication in that way is for many societies a challenge.
The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.
We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
I don't like definitions but if there is a definition of freedom it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it to change it rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Since we cannot change reality let us change the eyes which see reality.