David Knopfler Quotes

Trust the material; trust the story that you're telling.

The Centre is very important to me; it's about trust - about truth.

And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.

You want to believe in leaders, really believe in leaders. You want what they are saying to be truthful, and you want to trust them.

Trust the acting.

It matters if people believe you or not.

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

I believe that I have always told the truth.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

I know that I need honesty from the people I interview. I also know that the truth is more interesting than made up stuff, and also, people don't connect with you if you're not honest.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Honesty and authenticity are a big deal for me.

I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest.

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

You cannot tell an audience a lie. They know it before you do; before it's out of your mouth, they know it's a lie.

If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.

Believe half of what you see and only some of what you hear, unless you hear it from me.

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.