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

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.

We've suspended the willing suspension of disbelief. We have given up that relationship, that almost hypnotic engagement, with the characters up on the screen.

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Writing is so fun precisely because if you take out the right adjective, the readers can decide what kind of book is in their hands. Suspension of disbelief should not be mandatory in contemporary writing.

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

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to.

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.