Quotes About Illusion

I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.

I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special.

I was really inspired by the film Minority Report when he sees the projection of his wife because she's no longer there, but she's life-size and in the room with him, and that's very painful.

We unwittingly judge products by their boxes, books by their covers, and even corporation's annual reports by their nice glossy finish.

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.

Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

All that was once directly lived has become mere representation.

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.

It's really easy to fall for someone on-set, but in the end you know, it's a representative and it's not really them.

One point about understanding Donald Trump is that he is always representing something which has only a casual connection to what he actually is.

I don't like Hollywood. I don't like what it represents. I think that Hollywood is great if you're an actor, actress, established. But for reality people or what people perceive as reality, it's tough. People are constantly discrediting everything you put on camera.

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant.

I've personally been involved in movies where people on set were talking about awards for the movie, and I bought into the hype. And then the movie would come out, and not only was it not good, it was horrible.

I don't want to believe my own hype.

You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.

I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.

When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that people start believing because of all of the retouching. You can delve into that fantasy world and play with it, but when you walk away, that's not you.

It's easy to idealize someone that you don't know.

Ideally, you will never know that you're seeing a computer-generated car.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.