Dreams — both the ones you have at night and the ones you chase during the day. This collection covers ambition, aspiration, imagination, and the stubborn belief that things could be different from how they are right now.
“What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.”
“After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said. I can't even imagine being in front of the cameras all the time. I had a weird dream the other night that I was on 'Jersey Shore.'”
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
“Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.”
“From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.”
“The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams.”
“The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.”
“A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.”
“I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.”
“I have those dreams that you can't put into words.”
“I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.”
“Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.”
“You know, one of my biggest dreams in life is to play a Disney princess.”
“What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.”
“Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.”