Quotes About Illusion

Our idea of happiness may be the very thing that's preventing us from being happy.

Much of our suffering comes from wrong perceptions. To remove that hurt, we have to remove our wrong perception.

A finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.

If one's perceptions were accurate, reality revealed itself with ease; but if one's perceptions were erroneous, reality was veiled. People were caught in endless suffering because of their erroneous perceptions: they believed that which is impermanent is permanent, that which is without self contains self, that which has no birth and death has birth and death, and they divided that which is inseparable into parts.

I think, therefore I am really not there.

Your concept or perception of reality is not reality. When you are caught in your perceptions and ideas, you lose reality.

In this very moment all of us are dying. Some of us are dying more slowly and some of us more quickly. If we can be alive now, it is because we're dying at every moment. We might think that someone else is dying and we're not. But we shouldn't be fooled by appearances.

The cloud that was in the sky yesterday has not disappeared, it has become tea. It has not died, it is just playing hide and seek

If Bodhidharma is the ideal man, it is because his image is that of a hero who has broken the chains of illusion that enclose man in the world of emotions. The hammer that is used to break these chains is the practice of Zen.

When we can see the non-rose elements when looking at a rose, it is safe for us to use the word rose. When we look at A and see that A is not A, we know that A is truly A. Then A is no longer a dangerous obstacle for us.

In Buddhism, knowledge constitutes the greatest obstacle to Awakening.

Truth is reality itself and not concepts. If we cling to a certain number of concepts and consider them as being reality, we lose reality.

In 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,' I wanted to create the most convincing story of magic and magicians that I could.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

Like a real dumb idiot, I believed that to avoid a grenade that drops in the water, you could just jump in the water, and you'd be fine.

Just because it sparkles doesn't mean it's good.

When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them.

When you see Robert Englund in a movie, you think he is the bad guy, but if I'm not the bad guy, and I'm supposed to just kind of fool the audience, it makes it a lot easier for whichever actor is the bad guy. So I find myself doing a lot of those, I think they're called red herring characters, faking out the audience.

Scarface is just a character. He's just something to look at. He's not nothing to be.

You see Justin Bieber and Robert Pattinson, what they go through, and dude, that's not as exciting as it looks.

The illusion when things are going your way is that it's gonna just keep going. But it never does.

When I was a little kid, it blew my mind and kind of broke my heart when I found out that the 'Dukes of Hazzard' weren't actually from Hazard, Kentucky.

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.

You've gotta understand camera angles, camera movement - a kick that may not be very powerful may look very powerful from a certain angle.