Quotes About Thought-provoking

You can be Michael Moore and make 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' but that's hitting people over the head, and a lot of Americans don't like to be hit over the head. I want to make films that make people walk out and say, 'Wow, I really question if this is all right.'

I want to be scary, boring, philosophical, funny, touching.

I like to be able to feel as many parts of myself while watching a movie at one time. I think that's what 'Super' is - it's funny, but it's also sad. It's very touching in certain ways, and it's also got a very dark sense of humor. So it's allowed to go anywhere.

I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definitive answer.

Best thing I've read in a long, long time." —Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

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A quaint conceit, don't you think?

L'important n'est pas de convaincre, mais de donner à réfléchir.

Galileo and Kepler had dangerous thoughts (as they are called in Japan), and so have the most intelligent men of our own day.

The above proposition is occasionally useful.

I think one of the gorgeous things about TG is that we will go from something amazingly serious and important and significant in terms of the world and life, and then do something ludicrous and absurd.

Making people laugh is easy for me. I'm quite proud of that. But I'm prouder of silencing an audience for a minute because they're thinking about something.

If it's simple simple, it's boring. We try for the idea that is so simple that it will make you think and rethink.

The only interesting ideas are heresies.

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face.

Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the attempt is to reach a much more limited audience - one would say an audience that enjoys films that challenge them emotionally and intellectually.

I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.

UNA IMAGEN MENTAL SUGERENTE

Women are much more interesting when they're not nice." Again she sucked in oxygen. "Don't you forget it.

That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox.