Jeanine Basinger Quotes

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

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

That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.

I do like fantasy films.

A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

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

I believe in illusion - I don't believe in magic.

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

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

I am a fairytale person and firmly believe that movies are made to entertain.

I'm not emotionally excited by the power of cinema's tricks anymore.

When you go to the movies, you expect the movie to create a world that you can immerse yourself in, that you can step into. Sci-fi is a beautiful way of doing that.

When I watch a movie, I want to be taken away into worlds that are beyond my imagination.

It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

I never imagined myself in a movie with magic.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you're doing, the more that' s an important thing.

Movies are different from real life.

So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.