David Horsey Quotes

Anything in which you're playing someone real does make you feel responsible for making the story as true as it can be.

I think, first of all, every time you want to play somebody who is real is always challenging and always scary, because you are given a responsibility of someone's real life.

As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like.

The problem with doing [painting] Nixon is that if you make him look nice, he doesn’t look like Nixon anymore.

I think that always, as an actor, I don't want to overstep or pretend that I'm doing anything more than I'm doing.

I guess you should approach the roles differently when they're actual people who have been, this is the difference. Getting the accent exact, or the hair exact is less important in a situation like this.

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.

I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship, joy, and intrigue. If you're interested in people, you honor them best, I think, by making the fullest possible picture of them. Your subjects may - and from my experience probably will - protest your portrait of them.

Researching real people and doing them, I think, is harder than anything else. You don't want to do a caricature of them and you don't want to do an impression. You just want to do the best you can, in terms of presenting their views and a general impression of the guy. That's the hardest thing to do, real people.

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.

I like to portray things as close to the bone as possible.

I don't want to manipulate actuality; I want to record it.

My responsibility is to present things in a way that is realistic and true to the multifaceted world I've known... This is how I think the world is, not how it should be.

Whatever you put in your listing, make sure that it's a true representation of the property and it's not dishonest.

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness.

I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.

You don't bring in a gay character as a way of commenting on gay issues. You have one there because he's real, and that's his life, no less so than your life is yours.

I try to capture reality, nothing else.

You do your due diligence, you read as much as you can, and then, ultimately, I find that you discard that and you concentrate on the characters [of 'Antropoid'] and you can draw on [the research] if you wish, but I think ultimately it's about bringing as much truth and honesty to the portrayal as possible.

I think what I find challenging is just trying to bring a truthfulness and a realism to a character.

You just have to get one misstep - that's an easy way to fall into caricature. Bad caricature.

Everyone who is honest is interesting.