True Events Quotes

Even the two novels I've written were based on true stories. It's how I'm wired - real life is fascinating and fantastical enough. The kind of journalism I did unpeeled lids from cans otherwise sealed.

So much of what I write in fiction is based on true stories.

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

Everything was based on my life and the way I grew up. Some of the bits I'm most proud of in 'Haters Back Off' actually happened.

I love documentary because it's alive.

'Not A Love Story' is inspired by true events, but it is not based on those events completely. When I first read about the Maria Susairaj case, I was fascinated with the psychological aspects, that two seemingly very ordinary people can go completely berserk.

The name of the album is 'Non-Fiction'. And, I'm calling it that because the name of every song on this album is derived from a true story. Now, some of the stories are mine. Some of the stories belong to some of my fans.

The first movie I did that was inspired by true events was 'Apollo 13.'

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

I'm a big fan of non-fiction, and I am a believer that fact is much more exciting than fiction.

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

Because the kind of nonfiction I write has a plot, the events and transactions that make up a life, nonfiction offers me a break from plotting.

A lot of the evidence and some of the events you see in LA Justice are loosely based on real-life cases.

I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention.

When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great 'cause you're not pretending to make up some silly thing.

I much prefer films based on fact rather than fictional stories.

You're in a very nice position as an actor when you're portraying a piece of history that actually happened and portraying characters that actually existed. There's so much more to draw on and your research as an actor becomes much easier than if it's some fiction that you're trying to create a world around and background and history.

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.

It's wonderful to do these great blockbusters and bigger pictures, but my heart is always with true stories.

For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic.

'Operation Ajax' presents history in an entirely new way. It takes a true story and uses cutting-edge technology, never before used in this way, to bring it to spectacular life.

It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well handled. I thought it was even more moving because it was a true story and that made it even more poignant.

There's virtually nothing made up in 'The Immigrant.' So much of the film came from somewhere in my family's past. All the details are from my own family.

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

I'm more into kind of real stories, psychological movies.