Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Whoever attacks the popular falsehoods of his time will find that a lie defends itself by telling other lies. Nothing is so prolific, nothing can so multiply itself, nothing can lay and hatch as many eggs, as a good, healthy, lie.

He spent his whole life in plastering together the true and the false and therefrom extracting the plausible.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesize and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

So a lie told a million times becomes the truth.

Wrestling isn't real. The falls hurt, sometimes you get punches in the face, but it's not real. It's propaganda. Propaganda makes you the giant and me the small guy. Propaganda makes me the champion and makes you unworthy of a title shot.

I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.

A big lie is more plausible than truth.

Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

After I’d told her – the mall, the taxi, Cross stroking my hair – she said, ‘Did he kiss you?’ ‘John and Martin totally would have seen that,’ I said, and as I felt myself implying the circumstances had prevented our kissing, I thought maybe this was why you told stories to other people – for how their possibilities enlarged in the retelling.

Film is lies at twenty-four frames a second.

Donald Trump both disbelieves and believes in falsehoods, so that when he did thrive on his longstanding - the claim that Obama was not born in the United States - he's crazy like a fox in manipulating it because it gave him his political entrée onto the national stage. In order to make your falsehoods powerful, you have to believe in them in some extent. And that's why we simplify things if we say that Trump either believes nothing in his falsehoods and is just manipulating us like a fox or he completely believes them.

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.

We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.

La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.

Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see the lie as truth.

The best lies are always at least partially true.

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.

Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies and in the end, isn't that the truth? The answer is no.

The lie, of course, is more interesting.

The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.