Paul Walker Quotes

If you're shameless enough, you can sell anything.

It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.

Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished.

I had a job once selling encyclopedias, and that was an interesting job because I learned a lot about people's vulnerabilities and how salesmen take advantage of them.

I think the best promo guys make it sound like it's not a promo.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

Generally, a lot of the things people think are made up are real, a lot of the things people think are real are made up, a lot of the things people think are spontaneous are cleverly faked, and a lot of the things people think are fake are spontaneous.

...in seduction, as in all forms of marketing, form superseds content.

What we see is what they're trying to sell us.

I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy. Even if they know it’s fake they can believe anything. People are accustomed to being told what to believe in.

Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying.

I am often dishonest in my techniques ... I happily admit to cheating, it's all part of the game. I hope some of the fun for the viewer comes from not knowing what's real and what isn't

The economy is just a metaphorical device, it’s not real. That's why it's got the word con in it.

I don't want them to believe me, I just want them to think.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you.

How can a motion picture reflect real life when it is made by people who are living artificial lives?

What is it that angers us?... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that the photograph has been manipulated, but that we have been manipulated by the photograph.

A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be

You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it's real. I don't think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can't fool everybody.