Quotes About Truth

I've been asked countless times, 'Why are you drawn to horror films? Why do you think women are drawn to horror films?' And it's because, in a way, it's one of the few genres that tells it like it is. A lot of times, women do feel like they're running for their lives somehow.

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

What do I really think? What do I believe in, without the horse manure?

I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.

Well, maybe it's because of the rumors they had going around, you know, they had some rumors about Dennis Brown was in the hospital and all that. Well, that is all bull!

There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

I never have been in Bernie Fine's hotel room in my life.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

'House of Cards' is aiming for truth, not accuracy.

People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.

How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?

It's amazing how much things can get exaggerated.

We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.

I'm a huge believer in clarity.

I think we've told a lot of lies about human behavior through film.

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.

Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk.

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

I needed to let go of the idea of a God who was mad at me for feeling how I was feeling. Now, I bask in an understanding of the divine that delights in truth and the complexities of the human experience - even when it's not very 'clean.'

Usually people are ashamed when they do something wrong. People love to live in the darkness... I live in the light. I didn't do anything wrong by saving human life.

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

I think human nature is eternal and constant.