Quotes About Truth

As a cameraman, I am interested in images and truth. Today, people are conditioned to accept lies if they are commercial lies. What we don't see anymore is ethics.

Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.

These are facts, these are not imaginary things.

You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings.

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

The dumber the thing is, the more excitement I get from imagining a very complex world of truth around it.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Alongside the flat-earthers, 9/11 truthers and Obama birthers, the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists have always had a special distinction: They can do immediate and specific damage in a way that the others can't.

There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true.

Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after.

If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.

We must be clear: Donald Trump is lying when he conflates immigrants coming across the border with MS-13 gangs.

I think everybody could agree that our immigration system is broken. We have not told the truth about it.

I know some people believe impartiality is key, and it's necessary in some situations, but in others - if something is so fundamentally wrong, why do we have to make out we're impartial?

Be impeccable with your word.

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

We're such imperfect beings. I think that's more often the case than not.

I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.

I don't like when I say 'honestly' - not to imply that I'm otherwise not honest.

'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.

I was blessed to have my son, ZZ, doing it; he managed to pull nothing but the truth out of me. Put all that aside, and you think how strange it is to watch a movie about some small, but important, part of your life.

Authenticity matters; and, most importantly, the truth matters.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!