Thinking Quotes

In a way, I think Roxy Music is high camp, in a brilliant way.

Sometimes when you have limited resources and you really have to think about creative ways to get around some of these problems, generally the end result is better.

People are sophisticated viewers, as evidenced by the risks that are taken in cable television, and I think network has to do the same thing.

I don't want to say that the creativity would give out - I can't imagine what argument I would bring forward for that. But I think that there's something on the individual level that's a limitation.

I mean, look, the government is not a startup obviously. But projects to change government I think are best thought of as startups.

I just thinks it's interesting what it takes an actor to find their characters through the wardrobe, or the hair, or the way a character walks.

I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.

You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!

I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.

How many days do you have that are just purely dramatic? How many days do you have that are just purely comedic? It's usually a combination and I think that's what real life feels like.

I think that 'Hangover II' is as funny as 'The Hangover I,' honest to God, but I think that it's a little bit darker, and the stakes are a little bit higher.

When I was younger I was obsessed with 'Star 80,' and it's just a great movie - I think I saw it three times in the theater.

I make decisions to do movies based on the cast. I'd just been working with Zach Galifianakis on 'The Hangover', and I was thinking, I've got to find something to do with this guy immediately.

I've always said, rather glibly, that the message of my career has been about individualism, about getting to know yourself and taking responsibility, not just for what you do, but what you think.

I'll come around to see you once in a while, or if I ever need a reason to smile, and spend the night if you think I should.

You always have to be ahead of the audience so that they have to always catch up and know the movie's not quite going exactly where you think it's going, or expecting it to be going.

There are a lot of ideas I have that I think would be very marketable and commercial, but they're not as compelling to me as the ones that are unmarketable, uncommercial, and unprofitable.

I think success is a lot more healthy than failure.

I think natural gas has been a big part of the solution if in fact we need to reduce man-generated carbon dioxide emissions.

I think I have a very strange, hybrid accent, and I've worked very hard to get a solid American accent, which is what I use most of the time.

I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.

I think we have replaced MTV. MySpace is more convenient. You can search for things, while MTV is just delivering things to you. On MySpace you can pick your own channel and go where you want.

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?

Susan Rebecca White has a keen sense for how her characters talk and think. An impressive debut.

I think it's probably better to make a region your own, and then maybe you can go somewhere else, but a lot of great writers have stuck to one region.

I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa.

I tend to listen to my friends and family empathetically, and I try to help work through their problems from the inside. I try to adopt their thinking.

I think the voice can carry a story.

I think writers tend to hear a different message from the ones our friends and acquaintances intend. We see what's revealed, which makes us dangerous.

I think one's person's unlikeable is another's lovable.

Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

When a contestant actually loses consciousness, I think that's a good sign.

Particularly with live TV, I have a really good time reacting in the moment to things that are going on around me. I try to think of the viewers' perspective too.

I would think anyone who does anything is always concerned about their customers.

I approach every week the same. I think I've always tried to be very professional to how I approach the game, my preparation. Every game is important.

I don't put any thought into the footballs after I choose them. When you're out there playing in front of 70,000 people, like a home crowd, you don't think about it. You're just reacting to the game.

I think I've always tried to be very professional to how I approach the game, my preparation. Every game is important.

Everybody has an opinion. I think everybody has the right to believe whatever they want. I don't ever cast judgment on someone's belief system.

I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.

I think it's very much a matter between Barbara Walters and ABC.

People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does not like bad news.

I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity.

I admire Grover Norquist. I think hes done a lot of good.

If you think we are going to gain ground by holding the American people hostage, saying that their taxes are at risk, I actually disagree.

I get angry when I think that people are blatantly incorrect on matters of fact.

I think the patterns are set very early when the kids are young. But at the same time, there are some flavors kids just don't like.

We'll go through the legislative process and I'm make it clear what I support, don't support and what I think is good for Arkansas.

I think the older you get, the more lax you get, and the less romantic you are.

I think we are isolating ourselves, and in so isolating ourselves, I think we're minimizing ourselves, I don't think we are taken as seriously today as we were a few years ago.

You don't even wish for the success that I had, because you don't think it's attainable.