Able Quote by David Brooks

“It's almost inherent, but I'm a massive [Stanley] Kubrick fan. I'm a big admirer of what guys like Christopher Nolan have been able to do. For me, to be able to try to make big films that reach a lot of people, and that hopefully have something to say, is a lofty goal, but that's my goal.” quote by David Brooks — Download Open image

“It's almost inherent, but I'm a massive [Stanley] Kubrick fan. I'm a big admirer of what guys like Christopher Nolan have been able to do. For me, to be able to try to make big films that reach a lot of people, and that hopefully have something to say, is a lofty goal, but that's my goal.”

David Brooks

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings)

More by David Brooks

The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the…

David Brooks

Image

When you're running for president, you're a guest in the living room for four years. And if people don't think you're going to be…

David Brooks

Image

“I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks. It happens sometimes when you are lost in a hard challenge, or when an artist or a craftsman becomes one with the brush or the tool. It happens sometimes while you’re playing sports, or…

David Brooks

We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for…

David Brooks

Image

I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success.

David Brooks

Image

If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the…

David Brooks

Image

Trade has suddenly become massively unpopular. I think that's massively unjust. I think free trade has been wonderful for America on balance.

David Brooks

Image

Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.

David Brooks

Image

Pain now is better than pain deferred.

David Brooks

Image

It’s worth noting that you can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. You can spend your life on Wall…

David Brooks

Image

If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK.

David Brooks

Image

I do think Donald Trump is a fundamentally unstabilizing force and that the people who swore to uphold the Constitution are going to have…

David Brooks

Image

Explore all 431 David Brooks quotes

More Able quotes

I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,…

Jacques Lusseyran

Image

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is…

Frederick Douglass

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,…

Alice Englert

Image

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any…

Huey Lewis

Image

I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

Nas

I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it up in my persona. I felt like I wouldn't be able to do stand-up for a career if I was needy. I didn't want to be complaining or whining onstage. I wanted to be cool and…

Anthony Jeselnik

Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able to hit with everybody yelling at him. He had to block all that out, block out everything but this ball that is coming in at a hundred miles an hour and he's got a split…

Pee Wee Reese

I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.

Anais Nin

Image

Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which…

Greg Perry