Richard D. Zanuck Quotes

I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.

I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

Movies are different from real life.

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.

I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

Movies are magical. It transcends a lot of hate or human faults in real life because of the fantasy of it all.

I liked to pretend a lot. I thought I could be anything that I wanted.

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

People don't like reality, they like crazy stories.

Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.

I do like fantasy films.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

I often want to go to the movies and see something that transports you beyond the infinite.

There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

With action movies, that's just fun stuff for me. That's me being a kid again. Same with 'The Best of Me' and these romantic dramas. It's such a freedom from reality and social constructions. You get to just have fun and play and be in a movie.

And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'

I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.

I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.

It's fun to be someone else.