Craig Mazin Quotes

I feel with this film that as long as we tell Philomena's story and as long as we're true to her, which Jeff and Steve have already done by writing the story... we must not sell her short;. She's a most remarkable woman and all my concern was that we must be absolutely true to her story.

What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and honestly told.

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

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

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.

I take the responsibility of playing another ethnicity very, very seriously, and I promise myself and those people that I will represent them with as much dignity and integrity as I can muster.

The best stories come out of the truth.

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I do think it had the effect of making me interested in 'the truth' as a writer - more than beauty, more than having a shapely story.

Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.

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

Sometimes the facts can get in the way of the telling of a good story. But they don't get in the way of the truth.

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

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.

I don't want to ever tell a stereotype joke for the sake of it. I'm going to tell the story that I feel is true.

When I look at material, I get excited by things that are telling the truth because that's what you want to do: tell somebody else's truth.

The first rule of hip-hop is probably keep it real. And that can mean a lot of different things, but that's certainly important in reporting and storytelling.

Whenever you're telling a story about true-life events and about real people, there's a tremendous responsibility-slash-burden to get it right.

I've found that the more honest and true you are and can talk about a character and people's experiences, it's less ostracizing. It actually has the opposite effect than one would think. It makes the characters and the story more inclusive.

The truth of the story lies in the details.

....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.

Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself

To me to be a storyteller is you got to be able to speak the truth. You've got to be able to absorb life and take in life and be able to interpret it in a way that anybody in this room could say, "Man, that's my story. I can relate to that."

Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.