Quotes About Authenticity

Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you can write like you write, then you are true to yourself. And it's not an easy thing to do - it's a disgustingly difficult thing to do.

I do really like serio-comic movies that treat real difficulties in a real way.

We never made attempts to say we were anybody's role model or the be-all-end-all of what people should look up to. We have always just been very open about the fact that we have difficulties and we are messed-up people, just as our fans are.

Just because you are having difficulty in a relationship doesn't mean the love you feel in a relationship is not necessarily real. Or just because you actually can't be together in a relationship, doesn't necessarily mean the relationship is not real.

I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.

I'm just tryna be honest about all the things that I dig in my music. It's not just this over here, it's also that over there.

You see the Paper Bois - easy. Personas are easy to touch and see and digest. But you don't get the chance to really see who the Alfreds are. I want to make sure I did that with him.

There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

I don't think much about the digital world... because I am in the analog world!

We want the digital world to bend to your physical life, your real emotional life as a person, and we don't want you to bend to computers.

I write 100% of my material by myself. That's really important to me because I don't want what I'm trying to say to be diluted by anyone that might not know my circumstance or who I am as a person.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

I am not into fashion. I just like being able to buy my mates dinner.

There are directors who don't cast you for the way you act but for the way you are, the way you behave around the dinner table.

What we like to do is have family dinners at home so we don't have to have make-up on.

I am an undiplomatic diplomat.

I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

I can't be diplomatic or compromise or take crap from people, so I'd probably make an exit way before I even made a proper entry into Bollywood.

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

A bonus: You don't have to diet to direct.

It's not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.

The best way to direct kids is to be natural and honest.

I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.

I have always liked to speak to people very directly.