Quotes About Subjects

I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.

I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects.

It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.

Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught.

Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, both in the taking of the pictures and in their presentation.

In order to continue in office, any government (not simply a 'democratic' government) must have the support of the majority of its subjects. This support, it must be noted, need not be active enthusiasm; it may well be passive resignation as if to an inevitable law of nature.

If you see in all my books, I have two key intentions. One is obviously to entertain and make sure that the reader has a good reading experience. I also try to write on subjects that nobody has dealt with before to make my works different from other page turners.

The media has not done a great job in fulfilling their role - journalism's role in a democracy is to provide information on profoundly important subjects so we're an informed citizenry.

The subjects have to come with questions for me. I don't make films where I'm a massive fan.

I think that if journalists, reporters who spend a lot of time on a story, are honest with themselves, we all have feelings about our subjects - I mean, unless you're a robot.

One of the occupational hazards of reviewing year-end biopics with Oscar ambitions is pointing out discrepancies between the real subjects and their on-screen avatars.

I think something very simple that everybody can do is they can participate in medical research as subjects. Personal genome project, for example, will take on as many subjects as we can find.

Pharma companies don't have a direct relationship with consumers, so they're always subjects.

I was good at most subjects at school. Looking back, I was a proper boffin! Now, the thing I'm really good at is poker.

The journalist cannot create his subjects any more than the analyst can create his patients.

I think in terms of content and subjects and whatever kind of production it dictates. Can I conceive of an idea that would really connect with my personal rhythms and cost a lot of money? I don't gravitate in that direction, but it is possible.

I love and I'm intrigued by what history does to people and to subjects that matter.

Perhaps more than English or history, STEM subjects require an enormous amount of foundational learning before students can become competent.

More than other subjects, there's a myth that you have to be an absolute genius to be good at maths and to enjoy it, so I think it's less accessible for people. Even the word 'maths' makes people screw their face up. They do the maths face.

Sciences were not my favourite subjects at school. I preferred English, drama, music, and history.

Take any movie from 'Khamoshi' to 'Black,' I was always clear about my subjects.

All major cities are the same. People have the same sensibilities and they get afraid of the same subjects, groaning at the same things.

I love young directors who experiment with subjects. But I am definitely not choosy. I don't get that many offers to be selective.

I love the challenge of taking these really complicated subjects and trying to humanise them.