Suspension Of Disbelief Quotes

• To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Hope, Believe

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.142, Oxford University Press

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• It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Our Society, Belief, Dangerous

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.2307, e-artnow

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• It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

  Lionel Trilling

  Life, Art, Disbelief

  "A Gathering of Fugitives: New Essays (The Novel Alive or Dead)". Book by Lionel Trilling, 1956.

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• The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

  Edward Norton

  Magic, Disbelief, Suspension

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When it comes to acting, people talk about the suspension of disbelief that you ask of the audience. Before that starts, you have to, as an actor, suspend your own disbelief.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  People, Acting, Actors

  "Helena Bonham Carter Talks BURTON AND TAYLOR, Elizabeth Taylor vs Queen Elizabeth, Signing on to the Project, Consulting an Astrologer and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2013.

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• 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 him. That is what Ed Wood meant by the suspension of disbelief.

  Johnny Depp

  Rocks, Coyotes, Band

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

  Melissa Bank

  Real, Love Is, Disbelief

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.72, Penguin

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• That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Statistics, Poetic, Moments

  Biographia Literaria ch. 14 (1817)

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• The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.

  Joseph Bologna

  Bologna, Film, Stage

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• [Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility.

  Kingsley Amis

  Technology, Winning, Class

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• Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Expansion, Credit, World

  "Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, (Chapter 8, Holy Dread, p. 197-198), 1989.

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• What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

  Ed Wood

  Disbelief, Heard, Havens

  "Fictional character: Ed Wood". "Ed Wood", 1994.

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• Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

  Gillian Anderson

  Reality, Pages, Scripts

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• I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the time that this is not a slice of life, this is openly a film.

  Peter Greenaway

  Intelligent, Understanding, Want

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• We're getting to the point where we're impinging on democratic institutions in this country and I think, you know, it takes a certain - not a suspension of disbelief - but willingness to go along with other people to get the ship of state going forward. I'm not sure that happens in a [Donald] Trump presidency, frankly.

  William Weld

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• To me, when there's movies that are about, you know, guys named Hell Boy, and you know, the issue that they have with our movie that she doesn't get an abortion, I mean, I think there's greater suspensions of disbelief.

  Seth Rogen

  Mean, Boys, Thinking

  "Seth Rogen, Not Such A Loser In Real Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 2, 2009.

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• Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it.

  Elena Ferrante

  Writing, Needs, Disbelief

  Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.305, Penguin

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• Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.

  Edward Norton

  Character, People, Actors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There should be a name for this, for the process whereby one knows one is being yanked and concedes it has been done successfully - that one is grateful to have been spun. In the theater, it is called the willing suspension of disbelief. That's what allows the play to make an impact on the audience: they have to be able to make believe that what's happening on the stage is really happening. Maybe to a degree it is a requirement for all political participation, all effective political communication, too.

  Peggy Noonan

  Communication, Grateful, Believe

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• Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Wall, Moving, Mean

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• Characters more or less present themselves to me. I don't know their origins. I think if I did, if I seemed to myself to fabricate them, I could not induce suspension of disbelief in myself in the way writing fiction requires.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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• Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.

  Edward Norton

  Heart, Leaves Of Grass, Disbelief

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• I definitely prefer the single camera better. For me it's the simple fact that I enjoy working in front of an audience, but when you're trying to create a suspension of disbelief it's much harder to do in front of audience because they become a partner. Moreso than that, they become in charge of the timing. From the simple, mechanical fact that you have to hold for their laughter. The actual timing of the scene is in the hands of the audience. As a control freak, I don't enjoy that as much as the ability to be able to control it in an edit room.

  Jonathan Groff

  Laughter, Simple, Hands

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I'm not a moron, but science fiction to me requires a suspension of disbelief and honest curiosity or fascination in that kind of bullshit. I've just never been able to make that jump, really. I like things to be more organic.

  Marc Maron

  Bullshit, Curiosity, Fascination

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I would go to these 'Supernatural' conventions because, well, one, it's like going to your own version of Disneyland. You're adored for an hour or whatever, and then you walk out and you're nobody again, but, boy, when you're there, it must be what it's like to be Brad Pitt all day, you know? You're the best thing going. And it pays pretty well, too! But I was concurrently loved and hated by everybody, because the suspension of disbelief is, uh, pretty high among 'Supernatural' fans.

  Kurt Fuller

  Boys, Fans, Pay

  Source: www.avclub.com

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