Accurate Representation Quotes

There are a lot of people who think our job is to reassure the public every night that their home, their community and their nation is safe. I don't subscribe to that at all. I subscribe to leaving people with essentially … a rough draft of history. Some days it's reassuring, some days it's absolutely destructive.

Horrific things should be presented as horrific.

I believe people have the right to tell their own story as honestly and accurately as they can.

Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.

The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a popular commercial thriller - to make them feel authentic. Drawing on real locations and real events is part of that authenticity.

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

I think it [ Difficult People] is for people who don't feel that they have been properly represented on TV. I think it's painting a very accurate if slightly exaggerated for comedic purposes view of the LGBT world in a way that we have never, ever seen in any television show.

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

Providing accurate portrayals of characters is something I want to pay ample attention to.

I never want to make people upset, but sometimes we may. When I interview people, I try to make it clear that our obligation is to what we uncover and to telling that story and to presenting it fairly and making sure everyone has a say.

Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.

Report me and my cause aright.

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.

I want to watch telly that reflects the world I see.

When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?

There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.

Teens are being portrayed with depth because they are multidimensional, and they deserve to be portrayed as such.

The biggest secret weapon we had in regards to really being true to this part of the world, and making sure this part of the world could see themselves in this film [Moana] in a way that felt positive and accurate, was Opetaia, my co-writer, Opetaia Foa'i, who has a great band called Te Vaka and is an amazing musical and cultural ambassador.

I'm trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information.

It's always the case, whenever you're doing someone real, how much you want to do an impression or a characterisation. If I was doing Churchill, or Gandhi - people know exactly how they talked, walked.

I think viewers realize that people are a lot more three-dimensional than TV has traditionally portrayed them, particularly in news.

What a publication can do is to help people get a clearer picture without jumping to any rash conclusion. I'm very happy that the 'Post' can take the responsibility to report on China in a broader and deeper way. I believe the 'Post' must be fair to our readers. We should let our readers see China from more angles and perspectives.

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

Women should be portrayed as they are, authentically and truthfully.