It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“..Well, old dear, I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.” — Melissa Banks Copy Share Image
Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
It's absolutely fine when Wile E. Coyote walks in with a band-aid on his head, after a 3,000-pound rock is dropped on… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
When it comes to acting, people talk about the suspension of disbelief that you ask of the audience. Before that starts, you… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
“There are two times we need to use suspension of disbelief when we go to the movies and when we enter a… — Gerald Lanteigne Copy Share Image
I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Indeed, Rusbridger has finessed for the Guardian a certain willing suspension of disbelief and is able to credibly maintain conceits and moral… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't… — Dave Winer Copy Share Image
I'm not a media personality, I'm an actress. I want to protect that thing: the suspension of disbelief. The rest of it… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
The entire economy relies on the suspension of disbelief. So does a fairy story or an animated cartoon. This means that no… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“You know, the suspension of disbelief is fragile. It’s hard to achieve it and hard to maintain. One bit of unnecessary gore,… — Ernest Adams Copy Share Image
Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
That suspension of disbelief that's required as an actor to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances is different to what needs to happen… — Alex O'Loughlin Copy Share Image
Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
“Somehow I could lose myself in the ocean the same way I could lose myself in a good book. Maybe it was… — Eve Marie Mont Copy Share Image
When they're watching musicals, I've heard people say, 'That's not realistic! Why would they just start singing?' But, I think they can… — Jean Louisa Kelly Copy Share Image
I'm not a moron, but science fiction to me requires a suspension of disbelief and honest curiosity or fascination in that kind… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“Children are capable, of course, of literary belief , when the story-maker's art is good enough to produce it. That state of… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“The fantastic is in complicity with the realist model, in the claims that realism makes to represent the true face of reality.… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
There should be a name for this, for the process whereby one knows one is being yanked and concedes it has been… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
“When Sean died she understood for the first time how completely human beings were dependent upon a suspension of disbelief in order… — Erica Bauermeister Copy Share Image
“Harry's suspension of disbelief blew completely out the window. You're giving me a time machine to treat my sleep disorder. You're giving… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it. — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known… — Oren Peli Copy Share Image
Suspension of disbelief is a necessary ingredient in all storytelling. So it has been with the government's narrative that it is delivering… — Jo Johnson Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that a movie is false. But if as filmmakers we give the audience too many reasons to lose the suspension… — Greig Fraser Copy Share Image
With a theatre audience, the suspension of disbelief is much, much greater than on television. With television, people feel much more like… — Adrian Lester Copy Share Image
