Quotes About Truth

I've always played that edge of fact and fiction. I used to be a filmmaker, and certainly in film that's a line that filmmakers cross more readily and more easily than novelists.

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.

I have no trouble saying, as the copy reads, about how caring nurses are, because it's true.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Authenticity can't be replicated or faked. You're either real or you're not.

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

I know God is real.

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

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

Everybody wants to escape, but our escape is the real deal. If we're scary, that's because we're taking you away from you being fed what you want to hear.

I don't have a desire to make films that have cardboard cut-out or Hollywood stand-in replicas of humans. I need the real deal.

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

Paul was the real deal. Both in the movie business and real life.

It's not about the past; it's about knowing your history so that you can fight in the present. Otherwise, you don't know who the real enemy is, what the real issue is, because it had been covered by many layers of bad information, of lies, and manipulation.

Nobody smolders in real life.

Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.

I live a very real life.

I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.

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

Real life is far more complicated than fiction.

The best stories come from real life.