David Lloyd Quotes

I sell escapism.

Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed.

I think escapism is really important.

Entertainment is such a non-reality.

Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.

I like America. I think it's pretty cool. I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.

You have to hold onto your fantasy.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

The whole point of movie glamour was - and is - escape.

The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

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

We are constantly - in order to cope with painful realities - shuffling through third-rate, half-remembered fantasies taken from movies, from TV, from people we admire. We do this individually, we do it collectively - we tell stories to escape our most painful truths.

You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.

People love escapism and there should be a place for it.

What people will do to get away from boredom!

People tend to turn to the type of entertainment that has an escapism quality.

Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist.

I'm in my dream world.

It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them.

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.