Thinking Quotes

I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!

I don’t believe in saturation. We’re thinking and talking worldwide.

The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art’s sake than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore – and then there will be time enough for art.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

I’ve never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to be a famous person or anything like that, and I think my fans know that as well.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you’re figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it’s not worth doing – it’s already done. I’m interested in finding people who I think have a voice – and a very specific voice.

I’ve never really been settled. I don’t think I’ve ever known what it was like to be a person that was used to sitting still. I think it’s given me the ability to detach from any situation.

I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

I actually think that I have been fortunate to have had misfortune, because the response, in responding to the misfortune, you develop in your own life, you develop sort of the tools you need to continue on, or to do better.

It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.