Quotes About Insight

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.

At some point during the filmmaking process, you lose objectivity, and you need the eyes of someone who understands the process and has been in the trenches.

If you are famous, you should find someone who understands your profession but doesn't do it.

I feel very in tune with the spiritual world and no one understands it unless you have got that intuition.

Sia's talent lies in her ability to really understand what pop is. And I think because she used to write for a lot of people, she understands different styles.

Haseeb Hassan is a fantastic director. He really understands characters and their relationships. He always gives sound advice and direction.

You could argue we are a different audience today,but on the other hand what is it that makes Shakespeare great? It is that he understands the common denominator of man, his emotions and relationships.

True critic is someone who loves movies and understands it.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something.

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.

Lincoln was a supreme politician. He understood politics because he understood human nature.

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

As we mature through the years, we access more deeply information we had only abstractly understood before.

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.

With every character that I've ever played, I felt like I just understood the way that she thought and how she was.

Most parents have long understood that kids don't have the judgment, the maturity, the impulse control and insight necessary to make complicated lifelong decisions.

Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.