Quotes About Insight

When we saw the first cut of 'Wild Wild Country,' it was like, Wow.

You know, there has never been a watershed moment with a coach when I've gone, 'Wow, I learned something today.'

Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up.

I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea.

The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.

I try to keep up with everything - all wrestling across the board. I want to know what the competition is doing, what the up-n-comers are doing.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Joe Wright called me and I also had some trepidation along those lines but he said no, it would work. He had a very clear and specific idea of what he wanted to do.

In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect Soldiers' by Terry McDermott.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are thinking, I think you can always write something that people will understand.

You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.' See it and then get back to me.

I attempt to create a form of seriocomic entertainment to either delight, enlighten, or disgust, whichever you'd like. In terms of making motion pictures, I write and direct and act. I guess you'd say I'm a filmmaker.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.

I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff.

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.