From day one, I've always tried to be an honest man. I ran for Congress to make a difference and not to just be another politician.
A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.
I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.
I want people to see me for who I am and not for how someone else is trying to promote me.
I think fans can tell if you just slap a skateboarder on a game - you can't fool kids.
I think audiences are really thirsty for real shows about real people in any circumstances.
I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.
I'm only interested in working on records that legitimately reflect the band's own perception of their music and existence. If you commit yourselves to that as a tenet of the recording methodology, then I will bust my ass for you.
I feel as though there are things that I'm trying to do - you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience - and I'm trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it's harder than you think.
I don't want to be coy. It's so important for me to be as genuine as possible, so I don't want to stop when it comes to rendering sex the way that most people have it, which is unclothed.
I just want the audience to see that the performances are a real representation of myself.
Things have to be believable, not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense - capturing the essence of the situation.
[Everybody Loves Somebody] one really loves both cultures, represents them in a very accurate, genuine, authentic, fun, fresh way, and it includes so many more people because it has that language aspect to it.
The hardest thing to do in politics is campaign as someone you aren't. People can spot an imposter from a mile away.
I want to show people what I'm about - not just, 'Here's my celebrity partner this year that I'm going to showcase.'
Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.
Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment.
I love realism. I don't like plastics. Deep down inside we're all the same.
We need to remind people how fun skating is, how quirky skating is. If we went on TV and overlooked the cold, hard truths and the quirkiness, I don't think that's bringing anything to the fans.
People want real. And there are a lot of women out there doing that.
I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face.
I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.
I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.
No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.
That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
