Thinking Quotes

I think something many of us grapple with are those times we dread the practice of writing, no matter the project.

What we're witnessing really is a political realignment, I mean I think we're moving from a traditional understanding of left-right politics that we've had for a long time.

I think it's a message of economic nationalism. It's obviously one that has bubbled up before in certain pockets, but it's never been the sort of powerful phenomenon that it is today.

Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be an obstacle.

You think I look like a teletubby?

The one thing I did know - because I've seen many, many of the road trip movies that everyone thinks about - is that death to a road trip movie happens when you spend too much time in the car.

I think I'm the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.

The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.

I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don't ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie.

I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced.

I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.

I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.

In terms of optimism, I am optimistic. I do think that, in the long term, that America will right itself. I have to think so.

I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come to rest for a little while.

I think that fiction has this special responsibility or this special ability to help people to empathize, to demand of people that they understand other individuals and other people's experiences.

Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it

I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

If I wasn't a musician... I think I'd just be endlessly traveling.

I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.

I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars. A rabbi is just a scholar.

I think architectural appreciation would be a minor occupation after a nuclear war. People would just be happy to have something to eat.

I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.

It's up to me if I decide to do what I think is right.

I like to think - knowing that it's an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come, a world where price isn't the only measure of value.

I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.

I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow.

Life is a lot sweeter, I think, than you can be aware of it at times.

I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.

I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.

I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but never thought that I would be one.

A lot of times, when you're seeing something that you've done, you're thinking about the experience you had making it, not about the experience of the product.

Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality of an idea before its execution.

I think anyone who makes products has this simultaneous joy and, almost, shame looking at it. You look at it all day and all you can see is all these things you want to make better.

We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better.

I'm interested in questions my son asks me, like, "Why do animals fight? Why do you have to leave us to go on the road?" Everything he asks gets me thinking.

If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.

I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.

I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.

I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they're unique.

I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he's one of the best screen runners.

I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.

I love history. I'm very interested by it and I think it's great to have a movie that brings it alive in a way. It's sort of that romanticized version of it.

I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.

As a kid I had dreams about being successful, thinking it would be cool. Then, when I was in my 20s, I really thought I had it much more figured out than I do now.

I think you have to start taking a few risks and sometimes they don't pay off.

Doctor Who is pretty dark, I think. Generally its dark; its always been dark.

The things that inspire people to think are what keeps a film alive.

I think CGI is interesting but it's too expensive and limiting in terms of what you can do shot-by-shot.

If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.

I don't think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.