Quotes About Insight

Reading opens your mind and helps you understand and empathize with people who are unlike you and outside your breadth of experience.

No, you see, unlike some interviewers, I love politics... overall I am not anti-politicians at all. I recognise they are more important than me.

Working with my mother is unlike working with any other director.

The big insight that I have, not so much from writing 'Red Notice' but from living as the main character of 'Red Notice', is that Russia was and is a criminal state unlike any other sovereign country.

Sometimes, we writers find the perfect research material. I can't overstate how how precious that feels - it's as though you're having an intimate conversation with someone who has the key to unlock your project.

I don't go out of my way to be friendly, because it's completely unnecessary. People tell you what they are going to tell you no matter what.

Perhaps Obama is often slow to nail controversies because he needs time to live inside them for a while in his head. It's unnerving for the rest of us, but even the haters, one feels, are made to think more deeply than they'd like before they return to the bickering and the games.

I know the ropes of this industry, and I also know how unpredictable it can be.

People treat citizens like they're some kind of unreliable source, but citizens are data. They are a data set.

Research sometimes feels like an ongoing TV series in which some amazing revelations have already been made, but there are still plenty of cliff-hangers and unresolved plotlines that you want to see resolved. But unlike TV, we have to do the work ourselves to figure out what happens next.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.

What makes me laugh about politics, sometimes, is it seems like once we get to a point where our problems are seemingly unsolvable, it's because we're looking through a wrong point of view. If we turn the thing on its head, then maybe we might see it differently.

No matter what you say in carefully chosen sentences, girls will detect both the spoken and unspoken messages.

Find somebody who has been successful, and learn how to do it. Find somebody who has been unsuccessful, and learn how not to do it. The clues are there. Find 'em.

Look, a lot of directors were actors, even if they were unsuccessful actors which I think is helpful. I think it's a really helpful thing for a director to have experienced that. It helps you know how to talk to actors and how to get what you need from them.

I learnt so much from all my films, successful or unsuccessful.

If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual's particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?