A Quote by Peter Greenaway

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

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Peter Greenaway
British - Director
Born: April 5, 1942

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

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

Joseph Bologna

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

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

Lionel Trilling

I'm not a media personality, I'm an actress. I want to protect that thing: the suspension of disbelief. The rest of it is just distraction.

Holly Hunter

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

Ed Wood

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

Melissa Bank

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

Carlos Fuentes

Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.

Peter Greenaway

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

Edward Norton

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Elena Ferrante

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

Edward Norton

Generally, I don't like publicity on docs in progress, much less ones that are only in development; I've always tried to stay under the radar in terms of any press, especially with regard to the subjects of the film. I don't want them to be thinking about the film or funding or what the public reaction is going to be.

Steve James

Suspension of disbelief is a necessary ingredient in all storytelling. So it has been with the government's narrative that it is delivering Brexit.

Jo Johnson

To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent - herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.

Zhuangzi

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