Literal Quotes

The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.

It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.