Quotes About Insight

People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.

There's a moment in every romantic comedy when a person sees something in someone else that nobody else sees.

Sometimes you look at the critics and say, 'Nobody else was telling me that, but you were.'

I think no composer knows he's creating a hit until the audience gives it a nod.

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.

One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.

I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at.

Non-fiction books have helped me enormously with lots of my books.

We draw inspiration directly and indirectly from all sorts of things, like movies, documentaries, TV dramas, novels, non-fiction books, animation, science and nature shows, and our own life experiences.

He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.

A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them.

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.

In a way, I had such a normal life. But in another way, I saw things most kids don't see.

That's one of the great things about being an actor. You get to learn all these things normal people don't get to learn.

It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.

Normally, it's difficult for me to watch a movie that I'm in.

Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.

I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.

My favorite part of the film business is the research part, with the access we get from people who are excited to be involved and the things we get to see and do, which we're not normally going to get in everyday life.

The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.

Since one of my roles is that of a con man, I actually mingled with a few pickpockets in north Chennai to get a hang of their body language and mindset.