Quotes About Transparency

I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.

Truth, honesty, empowerment - it's what I want for myself and my readers.

I'll literally pay three Hollywood readers who don't know me to read my scripts under the radar and give cold comments. And at the early screenings of my movies, I'll hand out questionnaires that can be filled out anonymously so people can be brutally honest because, to your face, they won't be.

Because of the nature of my brand, it's so important our readers know it really is me behind my keyboard.

We don't need to dumb down our stuff. And it's important to know how far we can push readers.

The columnists have a very personal relationship with their readers, and the readers deserve to hear directly from the columnists.

I want to seem completely bare. Especially when I'm reading for a role. I want to reveal myself in the audition room. That's where I'm happiest.

We are ready to be criticised by any journalists because we know we are not perfect.

If I'm not ready to open something up to the scrutiny of the internet, I don't write about it.

We now eat at the end of a very long and opaque food chain. Food comes to us ready-made in packages that obscure as much information as they reveal.

I don't have any issue with people seeing my real self.

The real deal is always going to win in the end.

The Internet gives the public a chance to see what the real deal is! There ain't no hiding.

Whether I'm running on the beach without my shirt or whether I'm going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner - I don't choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

We're open people. I don't understand these Hollywood people who don't want to put their real life on TV, yet they want people to watch them and be fans with them.

In real life, I'm so brutally honest that it almost works against me sometimes.

I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it.

What you bring to the stage is what you are in real life... people sense that.

J. Tillman was kind of an alter ego. There was a lot I didn't want people to know about my real life. With Father John Misty, I leave everything in: so much so that I lose sleep before these albums come out because there is always a line or two in there where I'm just like, 'This is not going to go down very well.'

Like, if I'm assessing someone's game and they can't shoot, they can't shoot. And they know they can't shoot. It's not like I'm making fun of them. I just keep it real, man.

I like real people. I like real things.

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