Jay Chiat Quotes
The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
-
It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
-
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
-
Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
-
I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
-
The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
-
I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
-
Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.
-
For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
-
I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
-
Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
-
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
-
After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
-
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
-
As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.
-
At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.
-
The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
-
I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
-
I don't know if you've ever been skiing, but if you go to the slope you'll see all these kids fearlessly zooming by. It's only when we get older that fear creeps in. But for me, it just never has. And when it comes to racing, it's always about who is willing to go further, who is willing to take that extra step. I'm willing to take any amount of pain to win. I'm hungry like you.
-
It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.
-
I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?
-
As a creative person, you want to have a foothold and sense of progress.
-
Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.
-
The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.
