Jon Favreau Quotes

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.

The way you build trust with your people is by being forthright and clear with them from day one. You may think people are fooled when you tell them what they want to hear. They are not fooled.

I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.

I am not honest.

I abhor hypocrisy.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

When a man tells me he's going to put all his cards on the table, I always look up his sleeve.

At times, I can be vocal about what I think people want to hear as opposed to being vocal about what I really feel.

I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.

People want to be entertained. They don't want to be cheated.

There are managers who always say what people want to hear. I think that's not good.

We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers.

I have little time for sincerity.

I just don't have a tolerance for people being fake, I don't think. Maybe especially when I think they have bad intentions.

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines the choices they can make—and in ways we cannot always predict. Every lie is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those we lie to.

I always try to just be honest ... As opposed to artifice or manipulation.

I’m struck that there is one lesson I learned early and then relearned over and over: Trust is the coin of the realm. When trust was in the room, whatever room that was — the family room, the schoolroom, the locker room, the office room, the government room or the military room — good things happened. When trust was not in the room, good things did not happen.