Good Quote by Adam Pearson

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

— Nic Pizzolatto

In a fiction film, we know at some level we've suspended disbelief. In a documentary, we know that we're watching a drama unfold in…

— Joshua Oppenheimer

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but…

— Robert Duvall

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories.

— Seth Shostak

The problem with a lot of narrative films is that they're not real enough.

— Morgan Neville

I did sit in cinemas as a kid looking at English and American movies thinking, "Wouldn't it be great if the characters were like…

— Mike Leigh

I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art.

— Ken Loach

One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and see how…

— Ben H. Winters

I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.

— Amitabh Bachchan

Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and…

— Annie Dillard

The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.

— William Friedkin

People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs,…

— Mark Leyner