Quotes About Thought-provoking

If a book isn't at least somewhat polarizing, it didn't say anything of value. [Blog entry - November 1, 2014]

When it's a moral grey zone, the audience has to think about what they feel and what they think is right or wrong. You want to affect your audience and make them think.

I see my responsibility as to give people something they want to keep turning the pages of and giving people something to chew on, looking at some aspect of human nature that hadn't occurred to them recently.

My favorite movies are movies that I go in and I leave deeply affected. Whether I laugh really hard or whether I cry really hard, I just want to feel really affected in that moment.

A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.

I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere.

I enjoyed this book very much. It made me laugh in the right places, hang my head in places, fume in places and overall, admire her pluck, honesty and resilience. It took guts to write this. It must have been an exhausting process for the author but I hope it was cathartic too, and that the book proves useful to others similarly challenged.

Doug Motel makes 'conscious comedy'. He makes me laugh, and he makes me think.

The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.

Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.

I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.

A joke worth laughing at always has an idea behind it, and usually a subversive idea.

Ata nuk kishin menduar kurre se ajo mund te qeshte ,dhe sic do gje qe permbys nje mendim te pergjithshem, kjo e qeshur zgjoi tek ata nje fare shqetesimi , gati gati frike

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.

Actually, they have not been talking so much as mentioning certain ideas and then leaving the other to work through the implications. This is a highly efficient way to communicate;

I really like suspenseful movies and movies that make you think.

the first rule—he calls it the rule of rules—is the art of challenging what is appealing.

any book incapable of offending someone isn't worth the time it takes to read it.

Bring something incomprehensible into the world!

Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.

You want the audience to be uncomfortable.

I like roles that bring the unexpected. Roles that may challenge the way people think about things and perceive things. And I like roles that reflect a reality.

I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.