Quotes About Thought

It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again.

Thinking is the hardest work we do.

I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.

When a man is tired of New York he is tired of work. And thought. And cheesecake.

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.

This is the ministry and its work--not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks.

None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work.

Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.

If we fail to encourage physical development and prowess, we will undermine our capcity for thought, for work, and for use of those skills vital to an expanding and complex America.

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.

What we should in fact do, is stop allowing philosophers to reflect 'on' things. The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.

Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

As a filmmaker, I want to bring some value, some thought in the mind of my audience. When I embark on the journey of storytelling, I am an explorer.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful.