Cynical Quotes

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.

It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.

I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience.

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.

If I was working hard, she bled into my personality. I became more cynical.

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.