Quotes About Illusion

I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham.

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

I knew with The West Wing that that wasn't going to be for very long, that I was just the red herring.

The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And you will believe that it really happened. That's magic, isn't it?

I think sometimes people will look at the 'X Factor' winners or they will look at reality TV shows and they will think actually you can have instant success, fame, money overnight.

Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket.

This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can't be.

The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.

Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lawler's match was the one thing people believed most about wrestling in the last 35 years.

The only thing about 3-D is the dullness of the image.

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

The problem with filming something is that we struggle desperately to make three dimensions out of two dimensions. It can't be done.

The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough.

When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.

L.A. is a bit strange. It doesn't seem like the real world.

People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.

In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.