- Like
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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
Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my mom drove by a nuclear power plant when she was pregnant. But I wouldn't be in 'The Station Agent' if she hadn't.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think more money can be very detrimental to movies and TV because things get solved economically rather than creatively, and that's never a good solution.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.
- Openness
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.
- Jewish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really think of acting and directing as being separate; they are just different expressions of the same thing.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I would have been great in the 17th century. I would have enjoyed the frocks, and certainly some of the food would have been appealing, but the disease and hygiene would have worried me.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like how they are. I think they're great. And their communities are communities. I have a greater sense of community in New York than almost anywhere I've ever lived. Really, it's terrific.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you know, you turn up in London and you've just rewritten Dickens. And, of course, then you think, 'What have I done?'
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020