Quotes About Truth

Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music.

At Harvard, direct cinema was the core of the film department, and most of the students were trying to make socially conscious works, but I was trying to combine fiction and non-fiction to show how our seemingly factual world is constituted through fantasy and stories.

The truth is, I am conservative, but socially, I'm very liberal.

Freedom of the press underpins free societies around the world.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Internet does not equal sodium pentothal.

People say keeping it real is a hard thing to do. Keeping it real is easy. Being fake and being soft is hard to do.

You can be a namby-pamby leftie, a gun-toting neo-con, or a soft, indecisive moderate. I really don't care. Just don't lie to me.

Australian women tend to tell it like it is - even if it's the brutal, honest truth. I think American women usually break it to you a little easier. There's a softer side to them.

There's a huge latent market for software development that's just flat-out honest.

In 'Losing My Cool,' I argue repeatedly that it is a terrible lie, which has been foisted on us and sold to us for decades now, that hip-hop culture equals black culture, that being authentically black means keeping it real.

There aren't a lot of guys out there keeping it real. Everybody's been branded. Everybody's been bought and sold.

The truth is, a large majority of the market, I'd guess 80 percent, doesn't know anything more than what they are sold.

Airbrushing has sold such a false idea of what a body looks like to the point where people can't tell what's real and what's fake.

The record books aren't going to lie. They aren't going to say I sold out. They aren't going to say anything.

We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere above seven rogue soldiers who got out of control on the night shift.

Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.

Serious journalism need not be solemn.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.