Thinking Quotes

I do think laughter is the most important thing, and being able to see the funny side of nearly anything is a crucial, crucial thing.

I do think, from what we know of people who've had near-death experiences, that they often feel a warmth, and a light and a sense of love, and that would be great if that were there when we died.

I think we get the world we deserve. People who love get love back, and people who hate, or fear, they get those back too.

I think my faith is important. Being young as well, sometimes it's difficult, but I've got a good family behind me as well.

I don't really watch movies at all. I don't even think I could name one. Maybe Texas Chainsaw Massacre? I think I've seen that, but I definitely don't have a favorite.

Hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "think positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism, is rooted in unalloyed reality.

If you can't think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn't scientific.

Not to mention the CIA which should be, I think, dissolved, it's of no use - a great source of mischief - I don't see any point to the FBI.

The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don't think bureaucracy should ever be entrusted with that kind of power.

Even when you sign a treaty like I think [Richard] Nixon did, the anti-ballistic missile treaty, George W. Bush reneged on it. He got out of. So any treaty can be withdrawn from.

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.

We love to entertain audiences and this picture does that - it's romantic, it's funny, it's got a nice message and I think it's a gift to the audience to be able to enjoy this movie.

I think you've got to be honest with yourself at what you're good at. That's the hardest thing to do.

Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.

I should have had more faith in my talent. I think I would have gotten to achieve more, earlier, had I believed in myself. But I let other people take credit for my work.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

I think we look to the military as something that protects our shores.

I think I'm a great organizer. Not that I'm organized, but I'm a great organizer of other people.

When you think New York, you think Yankees.

I think the Moslem faith teaches hate.

If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

I eat many different ice creams. I'm not an ice cream snob, although I do think Ben & Jerry's is the best. But I'm happy to eat anybody's ice cream, really. As long as it's good.

I suppose they're confident. I think younger guys love the idea of a divorced woman who's going to teach them how to be a man.

Most people like to think they are discovering a new talent. If you ask, then it makes them feel as though they are being used. Allow them to discover you.

I think it's chauvinistic to think that women don't like to get scared.

I think of myself as a funny guy but nobody thinks I'm funnier than my daughters.

I do think it's important to expose kids to artists.

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.

I think it was fantastic being in the 49ers Hall of Fame.

Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

There's a lot of hate mail from readers. There's hate mail, threats, stalkers... I think that I'm bulletproof every week when I've turned something in. I think, I'm a god.

What's with this weird hotel custom of leaving a piece of chocolate on the pillow? I awoke thinking my brain had hemorrhaged some sort of fecal matter.

I think that you think that a certain something is not all that it could be, when, in fact, it is all that it should be, and more!

The only way a show works is you find people who you think are qualified and talented and you give them a chance to do what they do.

He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.

Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.

This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it.

I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real.

I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.

I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, two million, 10 million non-human lives.

Things are picking up...It's not going to make this thing go away... don't think you're going to find anybody deterred...There's a lot of people willing to die for the cause.

I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.

In New York City there are interesting characters and there are interesting stories. There's a story on every street corner. I love it. I think that's what really attracts me to making films.

I do characters. I believe in that. I think people are interesting. Now, everybody that you meet in New York City thinks that their life is a movie.

There are a lot of male directors who are directing female-driven pieces. I think that its good to get the girl's point of view and they should write stuff that they know.

I never think that being a woman is so hard. Maybe don't think about your gender and be confident as you go forward rather than try to single yourself out as some underserved part of filmmaking.