Quotes About Illusion

Showbiz and churches are the same thing. You never saw 'The Wizard of Oz?'

We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.

I saw the 'Wizard of Oz' recently and realized that, all my life, I thought they were real monkeys with wings. That's how scary that movie was for me.

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.

It's been like a bad dream I never woke from.

Augmented reality is the 'boy who cried wolf' of the post-Internet world - it's long been promised but has rarely been delivered in a satisfying way.

Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.

Over 55% of all shots using animals in 'The Hobbit' are in fact computer generated; this includes horses, ponies, rabbits, hedgehogs, birds, deer, elk, mice, wild boars and wolves.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

'Tales From Topographic Oceans' is like a woman's padded bra. The cover looks good, but when you peel off the padding, there's not a lot there.

A woman should be an illusion.

I would love to be that woman in a scarf and large glasses pretending I'm in a Fellini movie, but that's just not my reality.

I don't really think I am the most beautiful woman in the world at all. If I can create some illusion to that effect - and it seems I have - then that is what spells success to me.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

The problem with feature filmmaking is that it offers you this mirage of being able to achieve perfection, as the theory of it is that you have control of every part of the film, though in reality, it is as inexact as the next thing in your life.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than strings, but you can't therefore argue that the net doesn't exist. Just ask the fish.