John Boyega Quotes

You have to show reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth.

I like to portray things as close to the bone as possible.

Look at the facts as they truly are, not as you want them to be.

Documentary is reality. It shows 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.

I'm simply trying to tell the truth about human behaviour as I see it.

I do try to write in ways that reflect reality, and I think that reality is rarely simple.

Truth is a big concept.

I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

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

Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to.

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.

I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.

The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.

It's all about the script. Reality is key to me and less cutesy.

The truth is more important than the facts

Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance …

We must see conditions as they really are, not as we want them to be.

I don't want to manipulate actuality; I want to record it.

I just call it like I see it.

What you see with me is what you get. I don't have to conduct a poll to figure out what I'm going to tell somebody. I don't have to hire some consultant to come up with some cute catch phrase. I just call it like I see it.

I have had enough of an interesting life to not embellish it in any way.