Demetri Martin Quotes

Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

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.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

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

Reality doesn't interest me.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

I love becoming a character outside of who I am. Even when I was a little girl, I loved make believe, so I like it.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

It's fun to be someone else.

I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

Movies are different from real life.

The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.

I have a lot of fantasy.

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.