Steven Yeun Quotes

When guys do books or stories, all I like to see is the truth.

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.

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

I do not make stories up, full stop.

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

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

True stories are way more interesting.

Over the years, I have come to realize that no matter how satisfying fiction is, it becomes that much better when it actually happened.

In documentaries, you're confronted with reality; you can not manipulate or move it.

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all.

The best stories come out of the truth.

Truth is quite constricting, in a way. You endlessly see at the start of a film 'This is a true story'.

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.

We don't typically use music. We don't manipulate our audience into what we think it should feel. We tell the truth. That's 'Southland' Style'... and I love it!

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

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

Nonfiction means that our stories are as true and accurate as possible. Readers expect - demand - diligence.

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

What is truth? What is a true story? Who is telling the truth, and what is truth in this world today?

I think it's fair to ask how truthful a film is as opposed to how factual it is.

If you bill something as a memoir, you're implying that everything in it is true.