I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong.
A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.
When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
Your mistake was not in imagining things you could not know—that is, after all, what imagination is for. Rather, your mistake was in unthinkingly treating what you imagined as though it were an accurate representation of the facts.
I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent.
Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.
Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original.
I'm convinced that if we don't define ourselves, other people will do it for us, and inaccurately.
When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.
Each one writes history according to his convenience.
I find it really difficult when you make a movie where it is set in Russia and everyone speaks in English. It drives me crazy.
You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.
The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.
The trouble with half-truths is you never know which half you've got.
While the word 'bisexual' was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to refer to myself in part because of the derisive connotations. But, in addition, it would seem to me woefully inadequate and impressionistically inaccurate.
When Trump lied and claimed credit for 'the greatest economy in the history of our country,' even though it wasn't, and even though he inherited a strong economy, and goosed it up with trillions of dollars in debt, it didn't matter to most people.
You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.
He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.
A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
Anything can be taken out of context and anything you say or do is not necessarily an accurate reflection of who you are in your totality. There are small moments of your life that when taken into account with the rest of your life start to paint a picture.
The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that's incorrect.
There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.
