Illusion Quotes

“Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.”

“Romance is an illusion of love... an illusion of love that is destructive to women because it is based on erasing women's humanity.”

“The whole point of making a film is to be a bit of a charlatan. You're trying to create a world that people will believe in.”

“It's essential to have a few illusions to live a real life.”

“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”

“The world is full of trickery.”

“The life that breaks and recomposes is but a shadow.”

“Born like a dream, our life is a dream. We are born, we die; the dream is the same.”

“It is an illusion that we were ever alive, / Lived in the houses of mothers, arranged ourselves / By our own motions in a freedom of our own.”

“I've always been very protective of the secrets of magic.”

“We deal in illusions, man! None of it is true! But you people sit there, day after day, night after night... We're all you know.”

“The audience wants to be fooled, but they don’t want to know they’re being fooled.”

“Most magicians are honest people; they sell illusions.”

“Cinema is a world of illusion.”

“I've always been drawn to the idea of a thing that is not what it appears to be.”

“For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.”

“The artist's trade is to deal in illusions.”

“The greatest of all illusions is the illusion of the State.”

“The fan dance is the quintessence of eroticism because it is all illusion.”

“What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It is a manufactured commodity.”