Stephen Karam Quotes

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

First and foremost, you want to be truthful as a storyteller.

I am a regular writer in Mexico, and I always tell the truth in my writings.

I wouldn't be a writer if I couldn't tell the truth.

The truth, finally, is who can tell it.

I try to be honest; I really do try not to exaggerate the story. I try to be accurate.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.

The best stories come out of the truth.

Kids know when you're pulling a fast one, storywise, and I think that even when they're being entertained, children want to hear the truth, just like adults do.

I am an honest artist.

I have always been honest about my recollection of events.

Honesty will never break you.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.

I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk.

I have an obligation as a writer to tell a story as interestingly as possible, but with integrity and not inserting false drama... I'm looking to be subtle, but being a wordsmith does not interest me - I want to communicate.

Never let your fame outshine your truth.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.

Honesty and truth in writing is so important, and I think that YA writing above all is honest, and I think that appeals to anyone of any age.