Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.

Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.

I don't want to see the zipper in the back of the monster suit. Like everybody else who goes to the movies, I want to believe the monster is real.

Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game.

So you see, movies are really another dimension.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

The wonderful thing about cinema is you can bring a 3D world to life.

Moviegoers like to believe that those they have made stars are great actors. People used to say that Gary Cooper was a fine actor probably because when they looked in his face they were ready to give him their power of attorney.

If you came into the theater believing in the talking snake, it's kind of hard to leave the theater still believing in the talking snake.

Film is lies at twenty-four frames a second.

You don't want people to look at something and think that was a fantastic special effect.

I do believe that people go to the movies - for one reason or another - they go to the movies to have an experience.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. People are only glamorous if you don't see them. Like the movies used to make people years ago. There is something about people on screen that makes them so special; when you see them in person, they are so different and the whole illusion is gone.

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.

I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy. Even if they know it’s fake they can believe anything. People are accustomed to being told what to believe in.

Entertainment has seduced us into believing that we have a chance to live the life they live in the movies. Even the people in the movies don't live that life. It doesn't take 135 minutes to make a life, it takes almost a century. Everything doesn't depend on what happens in the next ninety seconds. Ever.

I would always slip away to the cinema. I always found something absolutely extraordinary about the fact that these actors were always kind of kicking hard at some new dimension they were doing on film.

The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.

We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.

Cinema is like dream.

Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly.

I don't care if I'm funny. I just want people to believe I'm that guy.