Quotes About Thought-provoking

I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to make someone think and make me think.

She wasn't radio friendly. She wasn't the song with the hook you can't get out of your head. You'd have to listen to her a bunch of times to appreciate her, and then you'd be glad you did.

Intellectuals are rebels, not revolutionaries.

Apply logic in places where it wasn't intended to exist.

To be frank, I find religion rather offensive.

The things that inspire people to think are what keeps a film alive.

Pu La's writing is multi-layered, multi-faceted, and deep.

Marx's favorite adjective was "interesting.

Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them.

SCHISMATRIX is a creeping sea-urchin of a book—spikey and odd. It isn't very elegant, and it lacks bilateral symmetry, but pieces of it break off inside people and stick with them for years.

My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.

Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It's not the type of film that, ten minutes after seeing it, you're only focused on what you want to eat.

I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

I don't care if people like my character. I just want them to think about the movie's message.

I don't really care if people get upset. I think I'm doing my job if people get upset; I want them to think! We all want them to think, hopefully.

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.

The best kind of television should mess with your head.

literature is not conceivable without philosophy or the other way round

The only advice i can offer to any thinking person is to kill himself before the millennium

Der Einzelfall ist nie gewöhnlich: das Allergewöhnlichste für den Gedanken und die Aussage sind Geburt und Tod: wohne aber einer Geburt bei oder einem Sterben und frage dich, frage die Kreißende oder den Abscheidenden, ob das etwas Gewöhnliches ist!

Mr. Mailer's work probably gave me hope that there was a way to be intelligent without being an intellectual.

It was far from stupid, and therefore dangerously persuasive.

If it was not a good idea, it was at least an interesting one.

What year did Jesus think it was?