Quotes About Insight

If innovations were predictable, they wouldn't be discoveries.

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.

I can't make any predictions, I'm not an astrologer.

I prefer to see with closed eyes.

I prefer sayings over jokes.

My preference for female company is based for the most part on the fact that women are more self-aware than men, in my experience.

I used to be a keen rider. Sometimes I could sense what a horse liked or preferred to do.

Some people say, 'Well you're a man; how do you write about women or girls when you don't know about them?' Well, I've got my imagination, and I can write about women. Yes, I'll never be pregnant and give birth to children, but I can imagine a bit of what it's like. When you create characters, it's just about making them really real to people.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

In my first year, I won the Premier League, and two cups after that, so I learned a lot from my experience in England, and I think it was all positive.

Through process and preparation and going through all of the interviews, I've learned a lot about myself and my skills.

If I prepare myself for a character, for a role, I always try to understand her.

I love to prepare for my roles.

The idea of interviewing someone is that you are getting their first off-the-cuff impression or response. You don't want them to have the chance to really prepare.

I was not prepared for the actual process itself; having to go to the shop and having some molds done.

Once you've made your first feature, you know what you can do wrong and how hard it is to shoot a feature. Before you do it, you just don't know how hard it is. Once you've done it, when you're writing a second one, it's almost like you're preparing, and it's almost holding you back.

'Presence of God' is really that understanding that sometimes when you step out of your own shoes and just open your ears and listen to what's going on around you, you get answers to the questions you were asking.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

I just try to tell a story rather than present an open diary to the world.

I see things about the present more clearly when I'm looking through the frame of the past: I think it's very hard to assess the present moment that we are in.

The funny thing is that when you have any form of presentation to your band, meaning you have the foresight to see outside of your creativity, you have a bigger vision.

I have opinions that are based on the facts that are presented to me.