Real Life Events Quotes

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film.

I think it's really healing to see movies that are based on true stories. It builds so much more compassion and empathy.

I don't write anything that I hadn't experienced or hadn't been through.

I am interested in biographical stories. Seldom are good biopics like 'Maha Nati' being made.

I feel particularly passionate about being a part of 'Rillington Place' because I've never had a job where I've felt so much responsibility and I've had to handle something with so much delicacy, because this story and these people were real.

We like nonfiction, and we live in fictitious times.

When you get to do something based on a true story, it always raises the level of excitement.

If a film is based on a true story and you don't use anyone's name, you can do what you like.

I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot.

Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken.

Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.

Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.

In 'Sanju,' there are too many colours. Some other filmmaker could have taken a dark side to that story.

I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.

Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas I don't invent dialogue for my subjects or plot their lives for them.

A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it a more universal story to focus on ordinary people rather than this extraordinary man.

The primary goal of the so-called nonfiction text is to relay the facts of an event - the facts about a person, the facts of history - which is not why I turned to this genre.

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

From fiction, you do not get to learn much because it is only imagination. Whereas, from non-fiction, people can understand and learn from the realities it covers.

I just like documentaries.

There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.

Non-fiction or documentaries can tell any kind of a story because they don't have to adhere to the rules of what's possible. When you're making something up, you have to say, 'Well, this is what would happen here,' but in reality, stuff happens that seems impossible.

The cinematography and the conditions in which 'Meru' was filmed drew me to the project. It's remarkable to think that everything in the film is real; these three men set out to attempt this impossible climb and to film it at the same time.