Creative Skepticism Quotes

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.

I remember reading 'Disturbia,' one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go 'Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?'

Most of the scripts that land on my desk are stuff you read and go, 'Is someone really gonna make this?'

I am neither such a great songwriter or such a great singer that the world must hear my album. There's just no point to make.

When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen.

Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills, but a mind that is a source of creative skepticism, characterized by a willingness to challenge old assumptions and to be challenged, a spaciousness of outlook, and convictions that are deeply held, but which new facts and new experiences can always modify.

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.

I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.

It's so much harder than it looks - to conjure a fictional world that some passing wolf of skepticism can't just blow down in one breath.

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation.