Quotes About Illusion

Our ethos for 'Now You See Me 2' was that everything in the movie at least had the potential to be done in real life, and I'd say over 90% of it was actually done in-camera with no CGI. Of course, movies like this are always going to be bound by the rules of Hollywood, being there's going to be enhancements of CGI.

Among adults, we can admit that of course, characters are creations. They aren't real people.

Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people.

Is time our invention, or is time a real thing... I realize we're measuring it, but in the cosmic scheme of things, is there really time?

For me, luxury isn't just the real thing. It's also fake. Swarovski crystals or real diamonds? It's a game.

You can't have the real thing on camera - that's the nature of cinema. When you see people like Daniel Day-Lewis and Ralph Fiennes screaming and hyperventilating, you're seeing the phoniest kind of bad acting. You may as well have a 'men at work' sign. It's not acting if you can see it.

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

I probably revisit in my work the moment at which I realised that dreams couldn't be reality.

Those of us who thought Jorge Luis Borges was a pioneer of magical realism were mistaken; he was a pioneer of science fiction.

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all about imagining with me.

Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.

I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.

Coming back from doing 'The Hobbit,' you think 'Sherlock' is realistic, but of course, it's not that realistic.

It's hard for me to consider something in cinema or theater as something realistic.

The water in 'Life of Pi' is very realistic.

Our 'realities' are make-believe - whatever we make ourselves believe, we experience.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

I think the life of an actor is very glamorous to other people - then, realities set in.

Perception is reality.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.