Cinema Quote by Richard Corliss

Laced with a unique narrative technique, racy screenplay and top notch production values, 'Lie' is a new cinematic experience.

— Nithiin

“So the film was a kind of lie, because by existing it said: 'Observe the lengths we'll go to for your security. We'll even…

— Salman Rushdie

The truth can be hard to take, but we have an obligation to look and see what's going on, and, if we don't like…

— Bill Maher

When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.

— Bill Nighy

“Fiction is a lie. And GOOD fiction is the truth inside the lie.”

— Stephen King

“Many people—particularly the young—have been persuaded that such a search is futile. They have been told from their preschool days on that one person’s…

— Charles W. Colson

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living…

— Vincent Canby

“Good fiction is trawling back into the past and digging up the real characters who've influenced your entire being.”

— Ken Scott

“It was entirely taken for granted that there wasn't any lying in our family, and I was advanced in adolescence before I realized that…

— Eudora Welty

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the…

— Norman Mailer

Ultimately, what audiences respond to is truth. Even as fantastical as the story can be, and out there, at its core, it's dealing with…

— Francesca Gregorini

“Good storytelling lets the audience relive events in the present so they can understand the forces, choices, and emotions that led the character to…

— John Truby