Quotes About Insight

Every once in a while, I'll have an acting role that allows me to look at something in my life and work it out.

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.

Do you know what the root of mediation is? Mediocrity!

The best movies are rooted in reality.

Running for me is self-exploration.

I've worked with David O. Russell.

I know Russia well.

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.

You can learn for your own sake, and that's fine, but if you come to Udacity, you learn because you want someone else to understand what you learned.

Now, I'm a pretty fast and avid reader. But you can't learn the same things in a book or on the Internet that you can in a personal talk with somebody.

You make documentaries because you love doing it; it's the only sane reason to make documentaries.

Satire makes people learn something more than being lectured.

Over the years, I have come to realize that no matter how satisfying fiction is, it becomes that much better when it actually happened.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.

I spend a lot of time talking to other scientists and writing to other scientists.

I didn't just sit down and write 'Summer In Kingston' from scratch; it came about from a bunch of songs I already had.

When you read a script, you get a feeling from it.

The more I read scripts, the more I learn about scripts, basically.

When I read a script, I always - the first question I ask myself is, 'Is there something that I could bring to it that maybe the next guy wouldn't?' Because I've read a lot of very good scripts and thought there are people who could do this better than I.