Quotes About Illusion

You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.

I think when you do stuff in a computer people tend to dismiss it. It also allows you to make a lot of stuff totally not connected with reality because you're not limited by any kind of reality.

At Disneyland, you never go 'backstage' - even when you're in the bathroom.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

With Magic Leap, your brain doesn't distinguish what's real and what's Magic Leap. Because as far as your brain's concerned, it is real.

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

You only have one thing in your mind, and that is your mind; once that's gone, your whole reality is distorted.

What people think when they see me on TV is that they're experiencing me but they're not.

We all enjoy a magic show, but we don't demand a Q&A afterward explaining how it was done.

Anyone can look good if you have 500-flash bulbs exploding in your face.

Exposure is this thing people think they want but at the end of day it doesn't matter.

Bologna is a deli meat for people with eyes.

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

For me, the whole fame and industry facade is a load of rubbish.

A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.

A bad facelift is like a bad toupee.

In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me.

When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away with your embezzlements and your lies and your murders, but you can never get away with failing.

Anything that consoles is fake.

Don't we all just really try to fake it well?

Santa was a fake.

I can fake anything.

I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.

Even today, a lot of the CGI you see in movies is so clean and crisp that it just looks fake. It's weird: the more advanced they get, the faker it looks.