Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chang-Rae Lee

I don't think that stuff is gone - I just don't want to dwell on it. There's a difference. As I said, I think we all have tendencies as writers, and I think we all have experience that we bring as readers to each project.

Chang-Rae Lee

Most people dont think about race as much as I do. They dont have to.

Chaim Potok

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.

Chad Lowe

I think each role has had different challenges.

Chad Lowe

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.

Chad Lindberg

I'd like to play an alien, like from 'Starman' or 'K-PAX,' where it's human. I think I'm destined to play an alien.

Chamique Holdsclaw

I think I have a great sense of me as a person.

Chamique Holdsclaw

It's an honor to be considered in the same breath, but I'm not Michael Jordan. I'm the first Chamique Holdsclaw. And I think that's where the women's game has to get to, when women are recognized on their own.

Charlie Hunter

That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?

Charlie Manuel

I think we're out on a limb right now, hanging over a cliff, and we're trying to find a way to get back.

Charlie Hunnam

There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions.

Charlie Hunnam

I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.

Charlie Kaufman

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.

Charlie Kaufman

I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.

Charlie Kaufman

I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.

Charlie Kaufman

I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.

Charlie Kaufman

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

Charlie Kaufman

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

Charlie Kaufman

Yeah, once we decided to use that replacement animation, and the seams are a function of that animation, and other movies paint those out, we decided we wanted to keep the presence of the animation and the type of animation that it was rather than make it look polished. It created a kind of vulnerability, I think.

Charlie Kaufman

I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.

Charlie Kaufman

I want to create situations that give people something to think about.

Charlie Kaufman

I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way. I dwell on the same things over and over and I try to figure out different ways of looking at the same issue.

Charlie Kaufman

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie.

Charlie Kaufman

Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.

Charlie Kaufman

I think that people create the world that they live in. Your existence is very subjective, and you tell stories and organize the world outside of you into these stories to help you understand it.

Charlie Kaufman

Story ideas, but it's also musing on stuff that I'm thinking about. This leads me to this and this leads me to this. They're kind of random and haphazard. Often I can't find anything. Somehow, by doing that, even though I don't necessarily refer to them in a specific way, I have some sort of architecture in my head.

Charlie Kaufman

I think everything I do is based on my experience in the world in one way or another.

Charlie Kaufman

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there.

Charlie Kaufman

I don't think the world objectively exists the way we think it exists. There's a constant sort of storytelling process.

Charlie Munger

Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is in a direction that allows terrible follies to happen, and the terrible follies have terrible consequences.

Charlie Munger

I think it would be a great improvement if there were no D&O insurance . The counter-argument is that no-one with any money would serve on a board. But I think net net you'd be better off.

Charlie Munger

I think the main figure that matters to all of us, including people in the media, is: How does GDP per capita grow? And those figures have been very good. There is a huge flux both up and down, so it isn't like we're all static in status. What's important is that pie grows.

Charlie Munger

The theory of modern education is that you need a general education before you specialize. And I think to some extent, before you're going to be a great stock picker, you need some general education.