Quotes About Illusion

You can't write about fantasy without being ridiculous.

People like rules, or at least the appearance of rules, even in fantasy.

Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.

When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.

People are fascinated with the fast life, the easy life. For some reason, that's an American dream, and it goes all the way back to the Edward G. Robinsons and the Cagneys.

We always think of misdirection as, 'Look over here while I do this over here!' And that's not what it is. You can be looking straight at it, and if you're not thinking about it, you won't process it. I find that fascinating.

One thing is for sure I do not believe in dreaming and for me reality is more fascinating than fantasy.

I love when you get the feeling of some social reality with a fictional film.

Fame is like a big piece of meringue - it's beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you up.

The superhighway of celebrity and showmanship is filled with debris.

Even though 'Luck By Chance' is set in the film industry, the lead characters are people you know and see, but they are not your friends.

I know film industry is not a very healthy place to be in.

When you're filming, it's very different from what you see on screen.

You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.

One of the skills you have to master in theater is the ability to make the audience believe that things that aren't there are there - just like when you're acting against CGI. Also, in a theater, the people in the back row can't see the whites of your eyes. Or your lips moving as you deliver dialogue.

There is no 'us' and 'them'; it's an illusion. We are all human beings, and we all have a responsibility to support one another and to discover ways of wresting the power from the very, very few people who control all the cash and all the property.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

I think of the spam folder not as Pandora's box but as a costume shop in which you can play and play at being whoever and whatever you wish. If only for a time.

Whoever said having children makes a comedian safer and less dark is an idiot. Having a baby has filled my whole life with fear, and totally destroyed all illusion that the world is safe or fair.