Bill Viola Quotes

There's a part of 'Twin Peaks' that is sort of a hinged doorway to another, stranger place, if you can imagine such a thing.

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

You've probably all had those kinds of dreams that are like usual life, except that a lot of things are not the same, and you seem to know the future in them. Well, this is because these other worlds where two things can happen spread out from our world like rainbows, and sort of flow into one another-

I want to create something that doesn't exist exactly in the real world, but exists in a kind of parallel to the real world.

I liked lots of 'Doctor Who' books, but my favourite tale was a spooky story about two invalid children - who've never met in the real world - who get trapped in a shared dreamscape when they fall asleep. It's called 'Marianne Dreams' by Catherine Storr.

I want to create a world where all the rules are different. It should be magical to enter.

I've always been genuinely interested in the spirit world. I've seen things I will never talk about because I'd be a fool to. You can't lay out that world in words.

Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.

I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect it.

Now, for the first time, he's seeing that there really is a way out of this, and it's all so simple. You don't have to run away. You just meet somebody special and step sideways into a parallel universe.

I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I’m having this one.

Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.

There is a world elsewhere.

Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow of the other world. There will be no unhappy memories.

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

There is another world for all that live and move-a better one!

There is a world inside the world.

I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here.

I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.

I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.

I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension.

It was probably 10 at night when I started to read Donnie Darko. I get in bed and read the first page, and I go, "Hmmm. That's interesting." Second page, "Wow." By the fourth page, my heart started to beat, and I knew. It makes me cry, because I knew I had found a classic film. You just know when you get certain material.

I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.