Believable Narrative Quotes

I can't impress enough upon people that if you tell an honest story that people relate to and people believe and invest in, you can do anything.

Sitting in America, we never get to know the other side in any kind of believable way. We have so many movies about Iraq, Afghanistan, and this and that, but there is never a character from that side.

We tried to limit human versus human conflict only to those cases where it could be powerfully motivated and made completely believable.

I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story--readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not the easy answers you get on TV, not wash and wear philosophies, but a reproduction of believable, emotional experiences.

Make your characters believable, and your reader will believe what they believe.

Normally my process is to sit in a room and read a script and talk about it and ask questions and just create a dialogue. That goes all the way through shooting. All kinds of thoughts and ideas can find their way in there. As long as you're all on - We're just all trying to tell the story so my job as a director is just to find out what this film wants to be based on, it's just words on a page at some point but then it just needs to go to some level of believable storytelling. I'm discovering the film as I make it, to some degree.

And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.

To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.