Quotes About Insight

With 'Street Fight,' it took an urban mayoral election and found lots of complexity in there. The same with 'Racing Dreams.' I wanted to show complexity within this world that most documentary people don't know anything about.

Observe the eyes, for they are the windows to her soul.

Being a writer means you get to live vicariously through your characters

They listened more than they talked, but that was the way of wise men and women.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women and even the most foolish women are wise about men.

You don't know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Some of the best fan mail I get are from our men and women in the military and intelligence communities. They say, 'Boy you do your homework, this is exactly how we're doing it.'

Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

Being humble doesn't work as well as being aware.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

My work isn't about form. It's about seeing. I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people see things.

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

If they need my C.V., they don't know my work.

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

We are learning to work with intuition, which actually is Soul giving us gentle guidance to make our life better.

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.

To appreciate art you've got to work at it a bit.

They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs.

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.