Art Quote by Anthony McCarten

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

— Joseph Boyden

The beauty of history is that historians have the ability to find patterns, the big picture. When you make a movie, you try to…

— Oliver Stone

History is ultimately storytelling. I think the more stories you write in life - and I've written a lot of screenplays, a lot of…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.

— Nicolas Cage

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a…

— Peter Ackroyd

Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.

— George R. R. Martin

I do enjoy history. That's one of the things that I love about acting is you get a chance to really dive into history…

— Andre Holland

You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think…

— Dougray Scott

Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.

— Melissa Harris-Perry

History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.

— Jon Weisman

With all the movies I've made about history, it's not really fun because you're trying to get it right. You've got history telling how…

— Steven Spielberg

I write and film history; I don't make it. One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached…

— Jean-Luc Godard