Thinking Quotes
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I set myself that decision, otherwise I'm driving an opinion at you, and I think that would be treating you like you're an idiot. I don't want to force-feed you my opinion.
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I was thinking about how snakes shed their skin every year, and how awesome it would be if people did that too. In lots of ways, that’s what I was trying to do.
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I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.
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I think that part of being human is being alone, and being lonely. I think one of the stresses on a lot of our friendships is that we require the people we love to take away that loneliness. and they really can't. And so, when we still feel lonely, even in the company of people we love, we become angry with them because they don't do what we think they're supposed to. Which is really something that they can't do for us.
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Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth.
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I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them.
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Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.
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Unfortunately, I think the expectation is that birthday girls don't pay.
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It's not the side effects of the cocaine. . . . I'm thinking that it must be love.
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I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
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I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not.
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On how he met Wayne Gretzky: I was in L.A. preparing for Indian Wells, and a mutual friend asked if I'd like to have dinner with him. I think one of his daughters plays tennis so he knew about me. It was obviously something I was excited to do, and I left the dinner pretty amazed.
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A lot of people think they're born for themselves; I don't think that. I believe that we're here to help other people all the way through.
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Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
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Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are.
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In the long run I don't think anyone can overlook these images of hunger, that people can ignore all my pictures - no, definitely not. And even if only a vague impression remains, in time this will create a basis that will help people distinguish between what is good and what is objectionable.
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I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.
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Everything that you could think about in life, or experience, or be interested in, theoretically should be expressed or dealt with in cinema. But the way typical narratives are set up, there's no room for philosophy, because it's just digressive material. It's not advancing the plot, so there's no place for it. It's the kind of stuff you would cut out, and that you shouldn't have put in there to begin with.
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I wish I still had my grandmother’s ring so I could give it to her the right way. Except now, he was also thinking, Please God let me not blow this, let this not be a huge mistake.
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If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.
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I think no matter what you do you can't please everybody. You have to ask yourself, "Did I do what I set out to do?"
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If I hadn't had my children, I would have been discouraged a lot quicker. It would have been much more easy for me to say, "You know what, let the whole thing go. Have a good time, because these people, this place - it's just not worth it." You know? I can't do that anymore. I look into those eyes and they look at me so trustingly that I'm gonna make sure that [they're thinking], "Hey, you did a good thing bringing me into the world, daddy. I'm going to have a great life!"
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The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.
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It's interesting what pops out of an author's subconscious when he's not thinking about it.
