Michael Cunningham Quotes

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

There is no original truth, only original error.

The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.

They would hear 3000 and think it was the year 3000, I was hoping it would sort of disorient them and prepare them for the strange message they were about to receive.

People thought I was dead. But I wasn't. I was just directing 'The A-Team.'

Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.

It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.

You can tell so many facts that you never get to the truth

He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

Things are not always as they seem.

Sometimes what we see, what's going on in front of us, isn't really what's happening.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.

My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.

Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.

How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing.

The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.

For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day.

The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus, and know the method of procedure, that they are full-fledged mystifiers.

Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.

What's the main thing that makes magic magic? The fact that no one believes that it's possible.

Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration.

But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.