Quotes About Insight

When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.

New questions can produce new scientific leaps. They can tiddlywink new flips of insight and understanding. Big ones. Paradigm shifts.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.

Education has always produced an incredible amount of data; that's always been obvious to me. But technology had to catch up.

It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.

Part of the job of being a producer is the Vulcan mind meld, where you listen not to what they're saying but what they mean.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs.

You can't be in a bubble being a producer. You have to keep up on what's happening at all times.

Working as a producer, an arranger, and, in some cases, as a writer for some other people gave me a super different perspective.

My husband himself is a producer, so we know the practical difficulties of producers.

As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.

I've been in over a hundred films so I know what producers are like.

I always feel that the best kind of producing - and frankly, it has to do with what I like to do - is you're the big-picture person.

Producing is just a big learning experience.

I think producing a record for other artists is almost like giving them advice, and I would say that it is easier to produce another artist than it is to produce yourself.

It's a product of two poles - there's the pole of the one who makes the work, and the pole of the one who looks at it. I give the latter as much importance as the one who makes it.

We know now data is so powerful, and you can learn so much about yourself and creating product with data.

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

It has given me an insight into what it's like as an actor to come into a show in the middle of a production and fit into a group that's already established.

It's an old principle, as old as the Buddha or Marcus Aurelius: We need at times to step away from our lives in order to put them in perspective. Especially if we wish to be productive.

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.