In pre-movie days, the business of peddling lies about life was spotty and unorganized. It was carried on by the cheaper magazines, dime novels, the hinterland preachers and whooping politicians.
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Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.
The lumpiness of 'The Good Lie's progression - from infancy to adulthood, and from ethnic horror to gentle social comedy to a heroic gift of freedom - proclaims the film's respect for facts and truths that can't be squeezed into a smooth narrative.
The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
A financial shift happened with 'Facing the Giants' and 'Fireproof,' where movies that were faith-based films were profitable. And people in Hollywood - like people in downtown U.S.A. - are out to make money.
Many people aren't rich because they're liars.
Lying is our stock-in-trade as social creatures.
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.