Understand Quotes

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it-ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea.

When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.

People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.

I don't understand why people don't remember my name.

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

To understand a man, you must know his memories. The same is true of a nation.

When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting.

When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.

Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.

There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

You're torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that's really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are you going to communicate it to people who really don't understand the process?

And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.

If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

Some people asked me if it was going to be a downer to come back and play on a college team after playing on a world championship team, and I don't think they understand what it is like to play here.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.