Quotes About Truth

Everyone knows that a movie is false. But if as filmmakers we give the audience too many reasons to lose the suspension of disbelief, I believe we're working our way down a hole.

Suspension of disbelief is a necessary ingredient in all storytelling. So it has been with the government's narrative that it is delivering Brexit.

According to my mother, positively no one, least of all herself, had even the faintest suspicion that she was heavy with child at the time of my birth.

The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false life.

The truth sustains me.

I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed.

As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.

At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.

The series 'Generation Kill' is, along with everything else, a sustained critique of the structural and conventional fictions of 'The Hurt Locker.'

The truth is the middle class is not only stagnant but it is my fear that, without sustained and focused action, it is at risk of disappearing.

Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

You recognize the truth because sometimes it's hard to swallow, but if you hold it in your mouth, refusing to eat it, you are going to choke.

If you are a journalist, check and double-check your sources. Don't just swallow what politicians tell you.

'Natural' is a word that has become unmoored by its meanings. If you go into a vitamin shop, things are natural, and people look at that, and they think it's good. It's no different than any other thing you swallow.

Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.

I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.

Liars are always most disposed to swear.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

Swear you'd rather die than use 'literally' as an intensifier.

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.