Dean Devlin Quotes

When the real world intrudes on your musical fantasies, I get put out.

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

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them—because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight!

Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

Fantasy is seductive and much more wonderful than reality, but you can't take it to the bank. It's always an escape. And if used as an escape, as in attending a movie or a show for a circumscribed period of time, it's fine. When it starts to become undifferentiated from reality, it leads to big trouble.

There are two kinds of world: the one we dream about and the real one.

Romantic comedies are there to give us dreams and butterflies, but what we can create in our own lives could be not only better but real.

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out. The moment you carry out any of your dreams or your fantasies - travel around the world, climbing a high mountain, buying a new house, writing a novel, carrying out a sexual fantasy, traveling to an unknown country - the moment you carry out your dreams, it's always, by definition less perfect and rosy than it had been as a dream. This is the nature of dreams.

If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.

Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.

When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.

Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as those we imagine during long train journeys, as we secretly contemplate a beautiful person who is gazing out of the window – a perfect love story interrupted only when the beloved looks back into the carriage and starts up a dull conversation about the excessive price of the on-board sandwiches with a neighbour or blows her nose aggressively into a handkerchief.

I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.

Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens, I'm always disappointed because it's never like what I imagined in my head. When an idea becomes a reality, then it's a job. I'd rather just think about it.

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.