Marc Webb Quotes

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Things aren't always the fairy tale that you thought they were.

When you fall in love, and you're very young, you think that that's the love of your life. And maybe it is, but it usually doesn't turn out that way.

I think one of the saving illusions of the film business is everything seems like it's about to happen. It's always about to happen. It's only looking back that you see the wasteland.

Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

One naively thinks that by winning the Olympics, it's going to be this switch, and then your life is going to be perfect, and that's not reality.

When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

I am disappointed when I don't win, because I want to believe I can win on every horse I ride, which is a ridiculous thing to think. Even if I'm on a horse that I have woken up thinking has no chance, by the time I've reached the course, I'll have convinced myself that it can win and will be disappointed if it doesn't.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.