Quotes About Truth

Even if it happened in real life - and oftentimes, especially if it happened in real life - it might not work in fiction.

All I know is real life. I don't know how to act. I don't know how to pretend.

It's tough - and I'm not the first person to say this - but cliches exist because they actually happen in real life.

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.

Among adults, we can admit that of course, characters are creations. They aren't real people.

I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all.

Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people.

I'm following a real event and real people.

I like real people. I like real things.

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

A lot of people know the name Gloria Vanderbilt, but they don't really know the whole story behind her, the real person that she is.

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

Your character is always right. No real person thinks they're being stupid or misguided or bigoted or evil or just plain wrong - so your characters can't, either.

I'm am really a real person.

Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.

At the end of the day, if you're going to buy a can of Coke, you want the real thing.

Bob Dylan's not a hype and a haircut: he's the real thing.

I've experienced racism and run-ins with the law, and it's a real thing, and it happens where I grew up. It's something that not a lot of people want to talk about. I feel like I have a duty, and I wouldn't be honest or true to myself if I didn't speak about it.

You can't have the real thing on camera - that's the nature of cinema. When you see people like Daniel Day-Lewis and Ralph Fiennes screaming and hyperventilating, you're seeing the phoniest kind of bad acting. You may as well have a 'men at work' sign. It's not acting if you can see it.

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

I must admit that i am fascinated by the glories of ancient India. But when will the purveyors of Indian culture realise that not everything about our past was glorious?

Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.