Audience Quote by Jayne Loader

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to…

— Bradley Whitford

You don't need the 'voice of God' commentary. Instead, by juxtaposing contradictory or confirmatory witnesses and archive material, your point of view becomes obvious.

— Marcel Ophuls

People who make documentaries have to be faithful to the facts. But when you are making a drama, a fiction based on the life,…

— Milos Forman

I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can…

— Nate Silver

We believe only what we see. So, with television, we believe everything.

— Anonymous

We, as a culture, use television as at least one of the great arbiters of truth. Even though we know it's fiction, when we…

— Peter Paige

I think people wanted to see some specificity in faith on TV.

— David Seltzer

In documentary, mostly, people are going to say untoward things; people are going to have gnarly beliefs. People aren't perfect.

— Debra Granik

We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.

— Taylor Sheridan

It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement.

— Sydney Pollack

I always like to have faith that an audience will suspend their disbelief, if you present it to them in the right way. I…

— Tom Mison

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed,…

— Alexander Hamilton