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Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.

~Edward Norton

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In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.

~Edward Norton

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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.

~Edward Zwick

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

~Georg C. Lichtenberg

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