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If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

You mustn’t always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

I don’t think there’s such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth. 

Wisdom is found only in truth.

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.