I think real life is weirder than fiction.
To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
'Stargate' was more a fantasy.
What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon?
I like dramas because there's a big overlap between film and fiction, so I feel relatively qualified to talk about plot and characterisation and that sort of thing.
Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.
I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.
The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.
Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.
His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.
This whole business of documentary being a second-class citizen is bullshit. A documentary can be as interesting, as dramatic, as sad, as funny, blah, blah, blah, as a fiction movie. Or it can be as awful as a fiction movie!
Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.
I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either. This is the difference between life and fiction. I suppose it's a good trade-off. But I'm not sure.
