Peter Greenaway Quotes

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

Illusion never changed into something real.

I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.

Fantasy and reality often overlap.

Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.

Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.

Nothing is real.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

Reality doesn't interest me.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

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

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

Movies are different from real life.

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Reality has a way of intruding upon illusion.

I've had moments where it's like being in the Matrix.

We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.

I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'

Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

Society? Can we trust us? Doubt it. We're probably not even real, as was revealed in the popular documentary The Matrix. That bloke next door? Made of pixels. Your co-workers? Pixels. You? One pixel. One measly pixel. You haven't even got shoes, for Christ's sake.