“Most of what I say is complete truth. My edit button is broken.”
“Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.”
“You deserve all that and more. It made me happy to see you suffer. I would do it all over again if I could. I realized I was shaking as the words tumbled out of me. I would do it again and again. Every night I would torment you and laugh. Do you understand? You are never safe with me. I drew a shuddering breath, trying to will away the sting of tears. He opened his eyes and stared up at me as if I were the door out of Arcadia and back to the true sky. That s what makes you my favorite. He reached up and wiped a tear off my cheek with his thumb. Every wicked bit of you.”
“Unless you re ashamed of yourself now and then, you re not honest”
“Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.”
“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.”
“Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.”
“The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to preserve you in some innocent state with their false protection, or are ‘brutally honest.’ When someone tells, lets you think for yourself, experience your own emotions, he is treating you as a true equal, a friend…And the best men cook for you.”
“The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones.”
“Each time we don t say what we wanna say, we re dying.”
“The trouble with most of us is that we d rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”
“Don’t spoil me with your lies, love me with your truth.”
“Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.”
“Full stories are as rare as honesty.”
“Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming. And don’t be afraid of wearing your heart on your sleeve - in declaring the films that you love, the films that you want to make, the life that you’ve had, and the lives you can help reflect in cinema. For myself, for a long time… maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn’t worth hearing, and I think everyone’s voice is worth hearing. So if you’ve got something to say, say it from the rooftops.”
“To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”
“It s not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you re honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.”