Factual Events Quotes

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

Whenever one assumes the role of historian, friendship and enmities have to be forgotten. Often one has to bestow on adversaries the highest praise…. I hope to satisfy … by appealing to the evidence of actual events and of eyewitnesses.

Creating heroes and history are often at odds.

All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

The big story of the day is always going to be driven by what's happened and by the facts and the events.

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.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.