Truthful Depiction Quotes

Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.

I think it's our obligation as filmmakers, as people investigating the world, to create the reality that is most insightful to the issues at hand. Here are human beings, like us, boasting about atrocities that should be unimaginable.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

Researching real people and doing them, I think, is harder than anything else. You don't want to do a caricature of them and you don't want to do an impression. You just want to do the best you can, in terms of presenting their views and a general impression of the guy. That's the hardest thing to do, real people.

A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what’s in the picture

My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified. A painting of a murder is of no interest whatever; but a photograph of a murder fascinates everyone.

I feel a great responsibility playing a historical figure because whether they were good or bad, I feel like the person deserves a fair shake. It's like being the executor of their estate in some ways.

We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image.

I think there's a joy to be had in taking readers where they just don't want to go. If you are writing a properly realist novel, then don't blink. Why not see something for what it is and render it truthfully? I find it a good way of going about writing - not to blink.

Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.

A picture is a fact.

Not to say there's not good TV out there, but I think TV is better when it accurately reflects the world as it is.

I don't go for films that exalt violence. I don't want them in my house. Sometimes my children see them. But nowadays they do it so truthfully and with so much passion that you are shocked.

I don't think 'Euphoria' can capture the entirety of the teen-in-high-school experience, but I think it is realistic. It's scary in that sense because I don't think we get to see a lot of depictions of high school this raw. I think that truth might scare people.

If you're playing a fictional character, you can create a character, you can sort of take certain liberties. And when you're playing a real person who's actually standing there watching you, you know, it's - you do feel a weight. You know, you feel an obligation to not only be - to give the best performance that you can, but to make sure that you represent this person.

Truth is quite constricting, in a way. You endlessly see at the start of a film 'This is a true story'.

If you can depict situations and explore life in a truthful way and explore areas of grey - because that's where the truth lives - and you can do that in an objective way and allow people to take from that what they will, I think it's a satisfying sweet spot with storytelling.

I always feel a responsibility to the people I write about. I feel obligated to portray them in the way they feel is proper.

Everybody was apprehensive about a documentary. When we're all dead and gone, we don't want to leave something that is not going to be representing the band in a true and honest way that shows everything that's important.

My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.