Quotes About Suspension Of Disbelief

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Edward Norton

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

Lionel Trilling

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

Edward Norton

#6. The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on.

Rhys Ifans

#7. When it comes to creating compelling fiction, the devil may be in the details, but it is your imagination that ultimately allows your work to spread its wings and take flight. And fly it must. Only by soaring above the clouds of doubt can one truly achieve a suspension of disbelief

Max Hawthorne

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#9. The grocery store poets do everything they can to encourage us in our willing suspension of disbelief.

Michael Pollan

#10. A little suspension of disbelief will take you a long way.

Me

#11. The generation of atmosphere, the aura of the uncanny, is one of the most important secrets of magic. It contributes to the willing suspension of disbelief, the feeling that, within the circle, or in the presence of the magical shrine, anything may happen.

Doreen Valiente

#12. 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

#13. Somehow I could lose myself in the ocean the same way I could lose myself in a good book. Maybe it was because both involved suspension
a suspension of weight, a suspension of disbelief
a willingness to surrender to something greater than oneself.

Eve Marie Mont

#14. Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has become one of them. Dressed up as a scintillating double negation, it serves the pedestrian notion of art as illusion.

Rudolf Arnheim

#15. 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

#16. Willing Suspension of Disbelief

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#17. 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

#18. I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

Melissa Bank

#19. 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

#20. For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.

Oren Peli

#21. I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief" ... a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate.

Sharon Salzberg

#22. evidently there was such a thing as "the childhood best friends law," by which any relationship involving two such individuals was immediately forgiven regardless of circumstance and then romanticized beyond any reasonable human being's suspension of disbelief.

Alice Keats

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

Elena Ferrante

#24. 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

#25. The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything.

Dave Winer

#26. 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

#27. But the suspension of disbelief could only go so far.

Cassandra Clare

#28. What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

Ed Wood

#29. When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the "suspension of disbelief" and activity of the imagination that are available in novels and movies.

John Granger

#30. The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.

Joseph Bologna