I. D. Douglas Quotes
Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.
Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.
I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
Clearly, if wed had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.
We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.
Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.
There is the truth about the marathon and very few of you have written the truth. Even if I explain to you, you'll never understand it, you're outside of it.
In the class that I teach at one University, I stress that my one-word definition of politics is money. You can't name a subject matter that money doesn't touch.
With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.
You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos
SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.
In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.
Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.
Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.
The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.
The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.
Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person.
I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips, And lights are in my hair.
We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.
Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.
I'm folding up my little dreams Within my heart tonight, And praying I may soon forget The torture of their sight.
