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

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

    Real   Style   Way  
    "Behind the Scenes With Paranormal Activity Creator" by Joel Meares, www.wired.com. September 27, 2011.
  • 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.

    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.
  • 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.

    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • 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 (2018). “An ABC of Witchcraft Past and Present”, p.372, The Crowood Press
  • 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.

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

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

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

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

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

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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.

    Laughter   Simple   Hands  
    Source: www.movieweb.com
  • 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.

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

    Faith   Hope   Believe  
    Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.142, Oxford University Press
  • The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.

    Bologna   Film   Stage  
  • 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.

    Art   Class   Smell  
    Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.163, Univ of California Press
  • 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.

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

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

  • I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

    Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.72, Penguin
  • That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

    Biographia Literaria ch. 14 (1817)
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

    Boys   Fans   Pay  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

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

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

    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
  • 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.

    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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