Quotes About Illusion

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

Nothing is real until you walk out on stage.

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.

I think of makeup as more like a design, decoration, or jewelry. I mean, it's literally paint; it's art. I don't prefer to use it as concealing anything because it influences the illusion of standardized perfection.

I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

Comedy, when it works, is light on its feet and has the illusion of complete spontaneity: as if there is no film, no camera. You are standing there experiencing it all in real time. This illusion, I believe, is why so many people think comedy is easy.

I show elements of the set in my pictures because it's not real. When I see movies, I often love the 'making of' more than the movie itself. It's not so final. When you have a woman just standing there, it doesn't mean much.

The true problem with virtual reality is that orientation is no longer possible. We have lost our points of reference to orient ourselves. The de-realized man is a disoriented man.

Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.

No man can lose what he never had.

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.

These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives.

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.

Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry

Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man!

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.