- Important
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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
- Film Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's a bit like saying a painter does a painting everyone loves and it's 40% blue paint, so from now on you have to paint paintings that are 40% blue. That's the film industry at its most blunt, which is why it's constantly bats and spiders and superheroes.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
With any period piece I think the thing to do is forget that it's not contemporary when you're writing and to have the characters feel as much as possible like characters that you would know.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think certain periods of history don't get dealt with because I think historians, and it's their job, but they look back and look for patterns. They look for sequences and they look for reasons, and certain periods of history don't fit with the general pattern of 1500 to the 20th century, during which there's the creation of the United States.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think an under-recognized fact is that TV has changed because the screens have, we now have these massive screen in our homes... so it's worth making your show look good.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's always good not to listen to what the rules are supposed to be about the arc of the character and the third acts and all this stuff.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think every time there's a show like 'Modern Family' or 'Will & Grace' that portray gay and lesbian characters and is successful, it just further opens the door.
- Differing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.
- Vision
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most obvious things are often right there, but you don't think about them because you've narrowed your vision.
- Conventional Wisdom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from reading a lot of articles and talking to a lot of scientists - that there's another side to be heard.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't like it, but inevitably we need to think about both the costs and the benefits of health care. We cannot avoid the financial consequences.
- Beautiful Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living in N.Y.C. has truly awakened me to the New York elite and their penchant for the city's self-described brilliant public transit system. I think it sucks... just like public transit always does.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020