Quotes About Insight

I think where a writer falls on the realism/non-realism continuum has a lot to do with their sight, as in, 'This is how I see the world.' And it seems my sight is off-kilter and kind of strange, but I come by that naturally; I'm not consciously pushing toward a particular point on the continuum.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.

I really appreciate that ability to gather signals of demand and signals of retention early on.

Ram Gopal Varma saw my pictures and called me for a meeting. He signed me on to play Vishnu Manchu's wife in one of his movies. He did not give me dialogues, instead he asked, 'What will you do if you were Vishnu's wife and this is the scene?' He explained the scene and I gave my inputs.

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.

With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking myself - 'This seems to be a significant problem. What can be done that hasn't been done?'

At least for me, I believe that one learns from one's mistakes. And I made significant mistakes, and I learned from them.

People believe the best way to learn from the data is to have a hypothesis and then go check it, but the data is so complex that someone who is working with a data set will not know the most significant things to ask. That's a huge problem.

Men are hugely significant to me and to many of the women I interview.

I find inspiration in each and every person that I cross paths with. Every human being I interact with offers me a significant insight on some aspect of life.

Because I've always been good at knowing what I thought and not reviewing prematurely and have gotten better at those things over the years, my flips are rarely that significant.

The amount of times I've been told something by artists I'm working with, which I'm sure they haven't told even their significant other or families, is shocking.

I just think self-satisfied people ignore certain signs about other people.

People tell you who they are. There are big neon signs going off. 'Pay attention! This is who I am.' And most of us put out hands a little bit over our eyes. We don't see that.

Some of us are born with a heightened sense of intuition and others less so, but being open to seeing the signs and synchronicity I think is important.

We need to hear stories from older women. There's a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they're silenced.

Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

I just didn't know that you could have a voice and an authorship over a film, which probably sounds a bit silly. But I just hadn't really thought about films in that way.

For me, the goal of a reading is fundamentally to help the person get closure or insight, and so sharing negative information without any positive silver lining or any potential resolution is pointless.

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

Cultural comparisons are good because they can tell you about what's similar, but also sometimes they make it easier to see obvious differences.