Quotes About Author

My job is not to frighten children, but sometimes addressing fears and concerns within the safe boundaries of a picture book can fill me with an awesome responsibility to be as truthful and transparent as possible.

What's amazing about 'White Heat' is that, even for its time, it's very truthful in the way it deals with violence.

If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out to be a very good play, but at least it will be a play where people are behaving in a kind of truthful way.

We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.

Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to sneak it in, and I would tell you how I did it, but then I would have to kill you.

Posterity is something I'm a big fan of because that's how you leave your legacy. Not to sound pompous, but just to be truthful.

Everybody should read 'Slaughterhouse-Five' by Kurt Vonnegut. This book is about the hypocrisy of war, told in satire, and is hard-hitting and truthful.

A good content always allows me to reach the depth of the characters, and thus, the performance looks more relatable and truthful.

I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.

Americans who value freedom had better be more concerned about the gun control crowd than the criminals. The criminals want your money. The Neo-Totalitarians want your freedom.

Everybody wants a solution on how to help their dogs, but we can't really see the problem until we reconnect ourselves to our instinctual self.

I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.

You know, I started doing movies. I mean, my mind was brought into saying, you know what? I want to build a generation of wealth.

I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

Donald Trump said prior to the debate that he wants to be very civil. He said that instead of referring to all Hispanics as criminals, he'll call them criminal Americans.

It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from.

I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that I want the story to be memorable and the characters to touch the reader's heart.

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride, and I'm wanted (want-ed...!) dead or alive.