- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think Quotes
Quotes that share what people really think.
Many quotes here open with a direct 'I think,' offering personal beliefs - some lighthearted, like using comedy as a defense, others sobering, including grim predictions about where humanity is headed. A few weigh in on cryptography and the future of communication, a subject also touched on in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that things can be serious minded but must be somehow balkanized in the art-house ghetto is very upsetting because I think it limits not just the audience who was already going to see it, but those who might have had their tastes developed at a younger age.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always believed that the stories and the performances are more important than I am. I think that the more invisible that my hand is, the more attention people can pay to the story and to those performances.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that I am interested in the resonance between character drama and high stakes, either situational or political or social or other kind of elevated drama, and I tend to find that those things combust.
- Position
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.
- Ecosystems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually something that we all do.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English courses. Literature is extraordinary, especially when you have a good professor.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020