Quotes About Insight

The great thing about women directors is that they're not only involved in the performances - they can gauge where we all are personally and know how to direct us better because of that.

And I think comedy obviously a great way to get a message out because you know the reason why things are funny is because they're true.

That's the greatest thing: an experience you can grow from.

I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate.

I know I get a lot of grief about some of the things I've said about Coach Saban, but working under him was like going back to school and getting another degree.

I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated. Reality on the ground differed in advance.

Every experience makes you grow.

You have to grow up, and you learn things along the way.

I've learned a lot. I've seen a lot. I've grown a lot.

I've grown up in the lap of the world.

I've been sitting at the grown-ups' table my whole life.

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

I love watching people, guessing what they are going to do next. I'm no Derren Brown, but I love that people stuff. Maybe that's why I'm an actor.

No man need go blindly to destruction, for God has given him guidance and power of seeing whither he goes.

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

Writing about our mistakes turns the stupid stuff we've done and cringed over for years into a sort of do's-and-don'ts guide for others. Actually, more of a don'ts-and-don't guide.

For me, doing all the TV stuff and having the experience directing, knowing what you want to make is 90% of it. The rest of it is just guiding everybody on that one path. But, figuring out the path is the difficult part.

One does not become a guru by accident.

I never say I am a guru.

I'm not modern or ancient: I'm just contemporary. I'm sure every guru of his time was contemporary.

Sometimes, you really need to trust your gut.

Gut is many times more important than brain.

Well, with all shows that become successful, Ive always had a gut feeling. All of the shows that Ive been involved in that have become successful Ive had this gut feeling from reading the scripts.