Jim Lehrer Quotes
My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the art of the next best.
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It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.
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Movies are too literal.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.
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I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?'
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I would welcome satirical references to political leaders as part of freedom of expression.
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On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses.
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I know who the great poets are.
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Having to respond to things that are made up or untrue tends to be a waste of time.
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My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.
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I believe we create a lot of problems in our relationships if we don't feel safe to talk about our feelings at the speed of life.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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I am not going to approve the home-screening format for my film just carte blanche in lieu of a theatrical screening when I cannot trust that it will ever be seen in the format that it's intended to be.
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Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.
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This is the same fight the US fought 60 years ago
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My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.
