Quotes About Truth

I am not in any way a conspiracy theorist and have no time for such nonsense.

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

I just don't stand for any nonsense.

A lot of things the press say are nonsense.

We are not going to get rid of the digital media - nor should we want to - and so our challenge is to use the media to determine the truth, rather than to let the media obfuscate matters.

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

The Gospel has to be the norm.

The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.

There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.

Not every relationship works, and that is the truth, and I don't care whether you're a movie star or just a person on the street, normal life. Everybody's normal, relationships are always normal. I think movie stars have a little bit harder time because the cameras are on there all the time. But you have to be who you are.

Normally I tell the truth whether it's nice or not.

We were taught North Korea is a heaven. They told us how people in western countries die in hospital or have no money to study in school.

North Korean defectors can usually tell when other defectors are lying about their past.

To tell you the truth, people might think going from a model to a North Korean defector would've been difficult in appearance. For me, the focus was not on the external but internal side of things, to fully understand Sae-byeok's life.

If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome!

Life's not fair. Don't expect it to be.

But I do always want to be honest, because if you have something in your head that you would like changed or that you think some way, then, I mean, I'm not going to sit up here and be a robot and lie to you. It's not fair to you, it's not fair to me.

I am not guilty, I am innocent.

When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.

Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.

I'm not interested in constantly feeding people tawdriness and confusion and chaos. The world is chaotic as it is. Why feed it to them constantly?

I'm not interested in an imaginary world.

I'm not interested in showing the wish of what it looks like to be human. I'm interested in showing what it actually looks like.

I'm interested in God. I'm not interested in religion for religion's sake.