Quotes About Influence

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

The Russian cloud over the Trump administration never seems to disappear.

For me to just be a face on something, I'd look at myself and be disappointed. I'd rather be the person behind the scenes making the show.

I might sound audacious, but the Mahatma has been a great inspiration. He had the conviction to live with his beliefs in the face of total disbelief.

If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch, too.

Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

I'm an old Coltrane disciple just like I'm a Christian.

I can say that I've become a David Fincher disciple. I have been completely turned.

It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples.

It is very difficult when you grow up without a father because you don't have a man who can give you direction and discipline.

A boy needs a male figure, and the girls do, too. Somebody to discipline them and make them be a man.

More money is being spent on our elections, with less disclosure of where that money is coming from, than ever before.

Be comfortable in your own skin. Comfort and discomfort are contagious.

Sometimes you're more involved in controversy, and at other times, you're disconnected.

You never discount a demagogue.

Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.

It's always lovely to discover that the people that you kind of look up to are actually very down-to-earth people.

I listen to lots of artists. But I remember discovering John Mayer, whose music made me want to write my own. And so I did.

Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery.

When we make political films, there are people with political opinions. They try to discredit you and run you down.

My son had nothing to do with policy or decision making, nor did I discuss the elections or any other matter with him.

If you have the ability and the wherewithal to create work that's basically in a discussion with the culture we're in, how could you not want to do that?

Whenever there is a discussion on Tollywood anywhere in the world, people talk about Prosenjit Chatterjee - what else can I ask for?

There was absolutely no discussion of Russia on the Trump campaign 'til the day I left.