Alienating Quotes
35 quotes by 31 authors
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There are points where you worry that you might be putting too much in and alienating the audience. But, funnily enough, some of those fears…
— Christopher Nolan
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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating…
— Sigmund Freud
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I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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Acting is a weird, kind of alienating job because you're in an isolated place. Even if you're working with a lot of other people, you're…
— Jesse Eisenberg
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I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.
— David Mamet
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In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is…
— Eliot Spitzer
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If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.
— Alex Steffen
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In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the very support groups…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come…
— May Sarton
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So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts of the more…
— Christopher Hitchens
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An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of…
— Paulo Freire
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School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.
— Ivan Illich
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Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress…
— Bruno Dumont
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For me, a lot of my work has dealt with what it means to be at the center of the universe and how alienating and…
— Marco Brambilla
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Film makers should be able to experiment with narrative without alienating the audience and without creating something that's impenetrable.
— Christopher Nolan
Who Wrote These Alienating Quotes
31 authors contributed a total of 35 Alienating Quotes, led by these top contributors: