Quotes About Truth

We need people in the game to be honest, to call things as they are.

One has to be honest to the story and choose actors accordingly.

If there is one thing I have learnt, it's that you have to be honest.

If you're trying to appeal to my generation you've got to be honest.

I try my best to live by the principle that if you're going to be telling a story that you didn't live, tell it with as much respect as you can for the people who did live it.

If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.

To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the truth in order to survive. But people don't require that now. They want sensation and they want it for nothing.

It's very rare that you have a liberal run as an unabashed liberal. They have to lie about it. They have to mask who they are. And in order for them to survive and thrive, they have to keep that up.

When someone has spent a lifetime trying to survive a death sentence, the last thing you want is your children uncovering what you have been at such pains to conceal.

It's funny how much the lie of a life after life works with people. Even people who are non-believers seem to think that their soul is going to survive.

While creating Moon Shoes, I had no idea that I was doing it. The experience was extremely organic, considering that I was making music spontaneously and working alongside friends. I chose to title the project 'Moon Shoes' to give listeners a sense of unearthly freedom. I believe each song moves listeners closer to the moon and personal truth.

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

In a sense, 'Schmidt' is the most Omaha of my films. But have I gotten it right? I'm not sure. Did Fellini get Rome right? Did Ozu get Tokyo right?

The whole point of real comedy is that you can say something that is true, and by being funny, you can make it tolerable for people, and hopefully they'll laugh at you, too.

There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

I can't remember who it was who advocated that you should march with the left and dine with the right but I've often concurred, taking the view that I personify the great tolerance of Britain by consenting to being regally entertained. Besides, there is a degree of truth in the view that while the left are worthier, the right are wittier.

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

If you were to ask me what the No. 1 lesson I learned from being on 'The Real World', and I challenge you to go back to the episodes and you will see that I'm right: I learned the myth of liberal tolerance.

We invented a history of Poland as a tolerant, open country, a country that has not been tainted by any atrocities committed against its minorities.

I won't tolerate lying.