Non-Engagement Quotes

Engagement is better than non-engagement except in the case of some really horrible countries.

I didn't feel like gymnastics were part of The Cars. I certainly philosophically didn't want to prod the audience to react to anything. To me, it was more like negative theater. We didn't really talk to the audience. I didn't see that being a part of this band.

Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.

Sometimes the only way you can win is to stay out of the game.

I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.

I have had a Twitter account since the very beginning but have never used it: I haven't tweeted anything, and I haven't followed anyone.

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

People should say 'no comment' more often. No comment! I love no comment. Let's have more no comment.

Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.

My whole thing is this - and this is how I am in real life - if you start talking to me crazy, I'm not engaging in that. I'm just not saying anything.

Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing.

I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.

If there’s such a thing as a thousand percent isolationist, I’m that.

You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

I don't pay much attention to sports.

Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places.

I have a policy of never going near Washington.

Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose.

I didn't really have any interest in producing anything.

I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.

If I could give advice to anyone, it would be that sometimes the best way you can fight a problem - and this is going to be a little bit controversial - is to not address it.

I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to fail in their purpose. To destroy it we have to stay out of it. If we want to cut down a tree, it is of no use to climb into its branches. The desire to keep contact with something, even to destroy it, is a subtle and insidious illusion.