Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the…

Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'

— Nick Nolte

John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.

— Jerry Saltz

I'm straight, but the character was too important to me to muddle his world with my private life. As a nobody, I got away…

— Gale Harold

What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has…

— Chris Bohjalian

An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players.…

— Chuck Jones

I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and…

— Patricia Richardson

Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable.

— Barbara Smoker

American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and…

— Edward R. Murrow

Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which…

— Anne Tyler

As an actor, I like my films to be believable.

— Kay Kay Menon

“Good fiction makes the truth believable.”

— Tarrant Smith

In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu…

— Orson Scott Card

'The Avengers' made it more believable that I could have been a major in the U.S. Army.

— Cobie Smulders

Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and…

— Kerry Washington

Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go…

— Rick Riordan