#analyze

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated. ↗

— Brad Bird

#audiences #complicated #doomed #films #hope

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#any #cannot #describe #disregard #human

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange. ↗

— Alexis Bledel

#also #analyze #asked #constantly #each

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#analyze #belief #believe #business #business school

When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#extremely #happiness #important #our time #out

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#chuck #existing #forgive #look #minds

It just comes down to taste at the end of the day, and that's something you can't really analyze. Yeah, I think to have it all there is basically best, regardless of whether there's hiss there as well. ↗

— Sean Booth

#basically #best #comes #day #down

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#analyze #betting #each #gambler #like

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make? ↗

— Yuri Milner

#five #future #i #i do #impact

I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films. ↗

— Paul Schrader

#critic #criticism #films #however #i