Neel Mukherjee Quotes

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

Not to say there's not good TV out there, but I think TV is better when it accurately reflects the world as it is.

I like showing the gritty truthful dark side of humanity.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Am I a little rough around the edges? Do I say things that people don't like sometimes? Do I swear a lot? Yes, yes, yes. Life's hard, man.

No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.

The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.

The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

I've always wanted to do pieces that have an integral sense of realism and aren't just there for titillation.

My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,' in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not - and was not interested in - telling a lie.

The truth is not beautiful --- it stands on cloven hooves - it is covered in coagulated blood --- but it is the truth.

The truth is not always what we want to hear.

Geese are but Geese tho' we may think 'em Swans; and Truth will be Truth tho' it sometimes prove mortifying and distasteful.

As a young writer, I was sort of sailing around trying to 'find my voice' - for lack of a better term - and I was really chafing against the very minimal brand of domestic realism that I'd read so much of in college.

I actuall have to defend realism in theatre because I think TV does it badly - so corrupted by layers of bureaucrats who want to leave examination or psychology.

The truth hurts. It hurts to some people.

In indies, life is very dark and realistic, and in mainstream films, the edges are all rounded off and very sentimentalized.

They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.

Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Sometimes the truth is stupid.

Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all of it - not what you want or what makes you comfortable, but all of it. And you will not erase what displeases you.