Faithful Representation Quotes

I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.

Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

I model my life after my Lord and Master Jesus Christ and his life. He has called me into God's family and I am a representative for him so I just try to be obedient to what He asks me to do.

Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.

Islam believes that Jesus is a prophet, and they honour him - highly - and they respect him, and they follow his teachings. So, for me, as somebody who was raised Muslim, it is an honour to actually play Jesus, just because of that.

It's a challenge to turn a book series into a television series; you need to keep people on their toes, but you also want to be true to the source material.

You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.

I don't tend to be a nitpicker when I'm watching movies, so as long as something is true to the spirit of the original, that's very much what we got for. You try to never do something that the original author wouldn't have done themselves.

Exhort him to lend a more constructive tone to his books, from a Catholic point of view ….[and in future editions] to make suitable corrections … in the light of the preceding observations.

I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen

I just try to be honest and true to the character and play the part.

Inconsistent professing Christians injure the Gospel more than the sneering critic or the heretic.

...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The greatest pictures would then... find wholeness in the torn world.

The production must be faithful to the line. If the production fails, my work fails.

You want to represent Christ well with doing you job, first and foremost, because that's what you're there to do.

There's a saying that goes around that says "I you crossover make sure you bring the cross over." That's definitely my heart and my aim. I want to remain distinct and authentically Christian in whatever realm I'm in.

Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality.

Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to music, since their essence is more faithfully reproduced through imagination than by the journalistic report.

With my own comics, I try hard to get the vision in my head onto paper, to have one match the other as closely as possible. With the 'Airbender' comics, I'm working with someone else's vision, an already-established vision. I want to stay true to what's come before.

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle

We didn't want to dilute or soften the material because that would really be irresponsible, in its own way. The [Hunger Games] books are very intense and very demanding of the reader, and the movie should be that too.

The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way.

All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.