Quotes About Authenticity

I have always believed in doing films which have strong scripts. Money is never the deciding factor for me and is not that important.

I've been to Manchester enough to know it's a real place. It's not Factory Records and the Smiths bicycling around. I get it. It's a modern city.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

There's no such thing as alternative facts.

Lies are an absence of facts and, in many cases, a direct contradiction of them.

To do a movie about someone who actually lived gives you two responsibilities. You have to try to be accurate to the facts of what he did and what he was like as a character. Then, at the same time, you have a responsibility to make a movie that entertains and can get an audience.

That's what's important to all of us that work on 'Atlanta,' that people don't see us as a fad.

The bands that do well don't get caught up in fads; they are just true to themselves.

I really think it's important that you not listen to so many fads; you really need to find what works for you.

I'd much rather fail than do something like 'The Chorus Line' movie, sanitized and Hollywoodized.

I had to admit I'd pretty much failed at the whole low-profile thing.

Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.

If you are trying to achieve the 'perfect body' or aspiring to be like someone else, you are only going to feel like you failed.

The day the audience feel they are watching Parvathy instead of the character, that would be me failing as an actor.

I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.

Where I've been able to be successful in our company's path is the fact that people think that we kill it, because they don't see our failures. Because we don't talk about them.

I want to display my failures at every turn, and ultimately I want to lead by example.

We create real situations. Anything's fair game.

I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.

I like to write in fairly everyday language - I've always tried to write lyrics that, if people would speak the words, it wouldn't sound like a song.

I am not drawn to the fairytale kind of love. I am drawn to the real-life experiences between a woman and a man. I try to sing about the way it is, but yet at the same time, what you can hope for between a couple.

I think there is a lot of pressure on people to be perfect all the time, and so there is this fairytale image of everything, but at the end of the day we are just like other people.

Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.