Anthony Michael Hall Quotes

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

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

Reality doesn't interest me.

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

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.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Reality has a way of intruding upon illusion.

Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.

I think people need fantasy, but I think they also need to know that they're not being lied to. I think sometimes the fantasy can betray people and become more difficult for people's lives than just truth. I can't stand delusion. Delusion makes me sick.

There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.

People don't like reality, they like crazy stories.

The make-believe world of 'The Black Tower' succeeds by broadcasting larger truths that might otherwise elude us.