Emotional Truth Quotes
Honesty in fiction, comedy, and real life.
Storytellers often say that emotional truth matters more than literal accuracy, and these quotes show writers and actors wrestling with that idea across film, comedy, and the novel. Compare it with quotes on making stories Better through honest craft.
In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.
Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and...
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It's much better to write a book and stick to the research - that's history. In cinema, emotional truth and psychological truth is much more important.
I would never make a purely autobiographical movie, because it would be incredibly boring. But I always bring something. It's usually some emotional truth I've experienced, like in 'Get Him to the Greek,' the relationship between Jonah Hill and Elisabeth...
Abandon Quotes
You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.
When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that...
I think film and television actually is a lot harder. Acting onstage is physically more arduous, but to get to emotional truth within a scene, it's much tougher to do it on film.
Better Quotes
The way I navigate scenes is through what I perceive to be the emotional truth of the character: what he wants from moment to moment.
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just privileged people read. I want to write a book whose emotional truth people can understand. For...
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
