Quotes About Truth

The stuff we have been told off record tends to be the stuff that is true and the stuff we are told on record on camera tends to be the stuff that is not so true.

When you're with another actor and doing something very intense, often you pull them over to your side, or they pull you over to theirs. But if you stay in your own truth, you can play that perfect tennis match. I always want to bring my power, but not in a way that eliminates the whole game!

I know Judge Roy Moore to be not only be a man of character in spite of the tens of millions of dollars that are flowing into Alabama to suggest otherwise.

When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can always kind of manipulate, and I can always be delusional in a way that's completely self-serving. With film, it's like, the camera can't really lie. It can manipulate to a certain extent.

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's a natural tension there.

The secret at the heart of 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' is something everybody, except for some of the characters, knows in Chapter 1. Some of the narrative tension comes from that distance between what the readers know and what the characters know.

People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

One of the most troubling things about the term 'fake news' is that it has become a force field against accusations you don't like.

Although 'The Anderson Platoon' was what we would now call an 'embedded film' - with all the ambiguities that term implies - somehow Schoendoerffer got away with showing things as they really were from a grunt's perspective.

Neither as a writer nor, moreover, as a leader of a nation should you use terminology that obscures the reality of human evil.

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

My mind doesn't work, my memories don't work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can't tell you it's always the truth.

I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

I've got this terrible hernia. People think it's a fat gut, but it's not.

This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat.

It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

The terrible thing about sunlight is it shows the dirt.

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.