Jez Butterworth Quotes

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.

My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

The simplest things are often the truest.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

When somebody asks me a question, I try to be as straightforward about it as possible. I try not to overthink what I'm going to say in an interview.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

The words of truth are simple.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.

I want truth. I'm crying out to hear it. I need it like oxygen.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

Nature admits no lie.

I am very clear and very honest. I can say one thing, and you look at my face, and it is clear.

What you see with me is what you get. I don't have to conduct a poll to figure out what I'm going to tell somebody. I don't have to hire some consultant to come up with some cute catch phrase. I just call it like I see it.

I feel like when you just say what the truth is, you can't really comment more than that.

We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.

If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses dont go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

Don't write slogans, write truths.