Quotes About Illusion

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

The lie is, even if you do work out, you'll never look like Madonna. That's the lie.

Sometimes, a stage curtain parts and you see: life could be better if you had more. Usually, I think, we can get just as good a different way. But tricks, they do not always work.

It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.

We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away.

Financial "synergy" is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.

Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.

You work like hell to get yourself ahead in the business. You could go anywhere before, and suddenly you can't go anywhere. It's like being a cartoon character.

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

This is my disguise, but it doesn't work.

Don't allow your life disappear into an abstract mirage

It's not what you do, but what you appear to do.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.

Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.

If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

I have no problem telling people I have a great stunt double. I'm not that guy who's like, 'I do all my own stunts.' Like, no, no, no - it's make-believe, and I'm not in the mood to die. I'm not in the mood to get hurt. I have a wife and kids!

No actor does all his own stunts, no matter what he says.

Any reality-TV show on MTV is gonna be fake and stupid.

I often photograph something as if the subject matter was realistic, but it is actually a fantasy.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.

Hearing is a subjective experience, but I never really understood that it's the same with seeing as well. I always thought that everything we see is the same for everyone. But having these more psychedelic experiences of being really, really sad made me realize how brittle reality can be.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.