Quotes About Questioning

Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.

There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it.

It didn't take me very long to realize that modeling wasn't very satisfying. I was always asking people, 'How are you going to set up this shot? How will it be lit?' And they'd say, 'Stop. Just pose.' I had a problem with that.

Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such 'imagine if' questions... we can distance ourselves from the frames, cues, anchors and rhetoric that might be affecting us.

I was asked three times directly in the hearing before the board of the judiciary whether or not I would continue to acknowledge God if I were to resume my position as chief justice. And I said I would.

I loved living in London in my 20s and 30s, but after a while, you kind of go, 'Right, is this it? Is this it for the rest of my days? Or is there some other possibility?'

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' because you will get 'down the drain,' into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

I'm now the poster child for not believing everything I'm told.

All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'

When I left Sacred Heart, I definitely had the conviction of my own opinions in terms of not thinking twice to ask a question. That was key to giving me the confidence to think analytically and voice opinions and put myself out there.

I just want people to question everything. Question what your congressman is doing, your city council. Question what really happened during the Civil War. What happened during 9/11.

Creationists have often made me doubt evolution, but probably not in the way they think.

When you walk into a doctor's office, you've got to have the same attitude you would about anything else. You've got to ask tough questions, and you've got to not be afraid to challenge their credentials.

I don't know any 21-year-old who's not having an existential crisis.

Whatever faith you have, you have that crisis: what am I doing?

I just never learned to think critically.

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

To make yourself a good scientist I would say first, you have to have curiosity. If you don't have any curiosity you better choose something else.

People die when curiosity goes.

I see myself as an avatar of curiosity and doubt.

I'm full of curiosity.

As a documentarian, you think, 'Follow your curiosity.'

Under no condition can you teach curiosity.

I try to be led by my curiosity.