Truthful quotes
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"It's just a moment that doesn't feel 100-percent truthful, a kind of a square peg/round hole situation. Which is why the preproduction on a movie is so important, because you can't just push those through."
"Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful."
"One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth."
"I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater."
"Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is."
"The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies."
"[John] Hughes really wanted it to sound authentic. He was a real collaborator. He encouraged us to bring to the material things we thought were maybe more truthful."
"If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs."
