Quotes About Authenticity

The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.

There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are flesh and blood.

I think some cases are different than others, but all of the child actors that I have encountered, as well as myself, are real kids. I mean we do all the things that kids do. We're normal. We just like to do different things. We like to act and make people feel happy or sad, but we're 'real' people.

Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view.

I think it's important to play real people.

Every time a Hollywood director shoots a film about Africa that features a Western protagonist, I shake my head - because Africans, real people though we may be, are used as props in the West's fantasy of itself.

I like real people. I like real things.

What sometimes annoys me about the arts is increasingly that we have to put real people on screen or stage.

Beneath the 30 pounds of makeup and corsets and gowns are real beating hearts of real people and they usually come from a place of pain.

I can tell very early on, reading a script, within six or seven pages, whether I'm looking at real people, and whether I can see and hear real people.

You see who the real people are when they're challenged.

Docudrama is not really my game, but it's interesting to play real people; it's interesting to play 'real.'

I like real people. I don't like fakes.

I don't have any special approach for playing dark characters. That's because I never looked at them as dark characters per se. For me, they were real people.

What any candidate should do in any race, frankly, is to show up. There's no special, secret sauce there. It's about having real conversations with real people, and when you do that you stay tethered to the things that matter. And that's what people want.

My parents were real people. They didn't put on airs or false faces. They were what they were.

I am fascinated by real people who are really funny.

I've had my best experience as a filmmaker with true stories about real people and real cultures.

At the end of the day, we are real people going through real things.

I'm just a real person, not a caricature.

When you see who I am, you're getting a real character, a real person. R-Truth, that's me.

I want people to see that I'm a real person, I overreact, I cry, I'm emotional. If I come across as perfect and in control, that wouldn't be who I really am.

Just stay real and stay a real person.

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.