Jeff Gutt Quotes

I think the most important thing is to be yourself and be genuine and don't try to tell anybody else's story but your own. And if it comes from a genuine place, I think people can tell, and if it doesn't, I think people can tell, and I think that eventually it shows.

People sniff out when you try to fake something or be something you are not.

Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

I think it's impossible to be up close with people and to ask them to let you in if you're fake.

I like real people. I don't like fakes.

I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks.

At the outset, I think that one should be natural, not just when it comes to writing but in every area of life. If you try to be something that you are not just to impress others, then it's a rather sad life.

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

I'm see-through. And I'm the worst liar of all time.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

A lot of times when you keep it real with somebody, you can't expect them to keep it real with you.

I don't do interviews under false pretenses.

My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it's okay to be sincere; it's okay to be yourself; it's okay to be real.

In order to be transparent, you really have to be completely honest and open, so that's how I've lived my life, and that's where I am now. I am completely transparent. There's nothing that you can't ask me and nothing I won't talk about.

I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

All I want and all I even ask of people in Hollywood is look, just be honest with me. Please don't lie to me. Whatever the situation is, be honest with me.

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

Just because you're upfront with someone doesn't mean you're an honest person; you might just be someone in the passenger seat.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.