Sometimes you have to lie. One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.
'50/50' is a comedy. I shouldn't say it's a buddy comedy because it's not farcical, and it's based on a true story, but it's viewing that experience through a very truthful lens of humour.
It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.
What is truth? What is a true story? Who is telling the truth, and what is truth in this world today?
The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.
I look for the dark story, where something secret was done. I read and read and pick up the trail of a true story. I use nothing but true stories. They are so much better than phony ones.
The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?
You don't have to have a true story to make a true story movie.
Nothing is funnier than a true story told by a bitter old black man.
True strength is delicate.
True strength lies in openness and working in concert with people and events.
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
True success for me is allowing players to be better than I was. That is what I went into coaching for and I've not lost sight of that.
The true success is the person who invented himself.
Stories are important, but I'm really into characters, and if you can give birth to a good one, that's true success.
I always think the true test of free speech is when someone says something you don't like.
The true test of a relationship is traveling together.
I had a musician friend once tell me that it's not in the orchestra that you get the true test of the musicians but in the little trios and quintets where you really get to see if they've got the stuff. And the composer.
We all have to stand by our life's work as the true test of what we have done for the world.
