Quotes About Illusion

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

Give the people what they think they want.

One sees what one wants to see when there is in mind a pre-conceived notion.

Seems like nothing ever brings you back to reality that makes you want to stay there.

Giving people what they want isn't always what they want.

I write about the men you want to read about but don't necessarily want to be married to.

I can make anything disappear, if I really want to.

First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge.

The success of the Hollywood marketing machine is to limit what we see. Not just to limit what we can see, but also to limit our expectations - to limit what we want to see.

Please give us a simple answer, so that we don't have to think, because if we think, we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be

Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.

If you're a movie star, the studios don't want you to act. They just want you to show up and look good and chase girls and have a lot of laughs.

When you're in Los Angeles, everybody you meet is writing a movie, and they want you to be in it. Every cab driver is writing a movie!

The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.

Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder time than you should.

There's what people want to hear, then there's what people want to believe, there's everything else, then there's truth.

I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you're singing to them.

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.