Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

Perception is reality.

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.

You know, sometimes there's a difference between what is actually the truth and what you perceive to be the truth through your social conditioning.

Perception is not always reality.

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

That is the beauty of memory, isn’t it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi)

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.