Quotes About Insight

Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the art forms.

In terms of my childhood, it was normal. You go through school, do well in school, and then I went to university. The performance arts aspect was never really an option because it was never in my family. Nobody was there to teach me anything about that. It wasn't until maybe my second year of university that I got inspired to dance.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.

The result showed the wisdom of your orders.

That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.

Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.

I used to be an open-spear fisherman, and if you're looking for fish, you're never going to see them. In an almost meditative state, you have to pick out anomalies, something out of the ordinary.

You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.

I love hearing other people's stories, and I freely admit I'm scavenging for material through their conversations, but really, at the same time, I'm living an ordinary life.

Even very ordinary people, upon closer examination, can often look extraordinary.

I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.

It's a very organic feeling to have something really speak to you and kind of lay out the blueprint for you.

In documentaries, the process is that you film a lot of things, and out of what you've shot, something organically reveals itself, and there's a discovery process.

When I was working on 'Homeland,' there was a consultant who helped me a lot... I went to Washington and met with my consultant there, and he actually organised a lunch with several people from the Intelligence Committee.

The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.

Fiction is organized gossip.

There is no original truth, only original error.

You don't learn from good people - they've found what works for them and are completely original; you learn from the people who are bad. You think: 'Oh dear, I'm not going to do that.'

When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.

To be the windowpane - this is basically a bastardization of what Orwell said about good writing - so you can get the conversation going and frame it the right way and make sure people aren't lost. And then you let the candidates illuminate the issues themselves.

Orwell had a very accurate foresight of today's dystopian world we live in. If only he was around to see it.

I will be talking with gymnasts from some of the other countries. I will be getting a feel for what they're thinking and what they're doing. It should be a really great meet.