Quotes About Insight

Never forget that it sometimes takes a foreigner's eye to capture Britain most clearly.

'The Mahabharata,' which inspired my novel 'Palace of Illusions,' also has many stories embedded within the main tale.

Looking back at it now, any objective account of my life is bound to read like a cross between 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and a travel brochure.

The person most qualified to tell the tale of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the man himself, as gifted an intellect as he is an athlete.

I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films. When it's there, I'm grateful for the director's skill at telling an exquisitely nuanced tale filled with psychological insight, but it is the spectacles that I take home with me.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

I realized early on I was not an actor. And it was a great thing to have that realization. To see actors and see what that talent is... it wasn't me.

I have a good eye for great projects, talent, and entrepreneurs.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

Acting is a talent, but I like to see the whole picture.

So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.

I have always believed Chandra Barot is a very talented director.

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.

I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don't know that I've ever heard any geniuses.

Because I've spent most of my life with such a beautiful, talented, challenging female, I feel I've gained - and am still gaining - a great deal of knowledge about the feminine mystique and about personal relationships - knowledge which is so important to a writer.

If there's any secret to my success, it's that I just hire people who are smarter and more talented than I am.

As Looker got larger, the talented people we hired started to see things that we couldn't. And what had looked like a company the three of us could run out of our houses for a few hours a day became something bigger. Much bigger.

I stand to learn more working as an actor with really talented people than I do by directing a feature.

Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.

I'm not writing fairy tales or object lessons.

I never saw fairy tales as an escape or a cop-out... On the contrary, speaking for myself, it is the way to understand reality.

Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Sheep are never going to talk to you about cricket.