Jean-Pierre Dardenne Quotes

Some stories are true that never happened.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

I make it all up, and all of it is true.

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

People don't like reality, they like crazy stories.

All stories are true.

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end; there must be a sense of magic created about the most restrained of naturalism.

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.

When I wrote my fictional novels, they always had a starting point of something real. Those images that are not real are exactly the same strength and power of the real ones, and the line between them is completely blurred.

People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.

I think both you and I, we live in a world of fiction and stories.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Truth is not always injured by fiction.

Every fiction has its base in fact.

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

Falsehood is a critical element in fiction. Part of the thrill of being told a story is the chance of being hoodwinked. . .The telling of lies is a sort of sleight of hand that displays our deepest feelings about life.

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.