Quotes About Belief

It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement.

Children don't have to suspend disbelief like adults do... their brains can take in whatever crazy magical ideas you throw at them.

To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

When they're watching musicals, I've heard people say, 'That's not realistic! Why would they just start singing?' But, I think they can believe it if they try! I mean, science fiction requires a suspension of disbelief, but people allow themselves to sit back and enjoy it anyway.

Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.

Everyone knows that a movie is false. But if as filmmakers we give the audience too many reasons to lose the suspension of disbelief, I believe we're working our way down a hole.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

Suspension of disbelief is a necessary ingredient in all storytelling. So it has been with the government's narrative that it is delivering Brexit.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed.

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

I guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

I've never really thought I'd get married. It's not that I'm suspicious of it or anything like that, it's just that I don't have a reference for it because my mum wasn't.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.

There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is 'the product of destiny,' or 'formed by fate,' or 'predestined for a certain life.' I am suspicious, too, of efforts to cage children or adults in preconceived ideas of who they are or should be.

The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up.

You can't be suspicious 24/7. It's too exhausting.

The truth sustains me.

The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.