Timothy Bottoms Quotes

You can't hope for a better result as a campaigner than to have the prime minister announce a major policy change within 48 hours of your documentary.

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.

I think to many people the term 'activist film' implies a film with a single point of view - something designed to provoke outrage and urge action on a particular issue - sort of the film equivalent of a rally. 'If a Tree Falls' is not that kind of film.

I am deeply honored to be making 'Life Itself,' a documentary on the life of Roger Ebert, and to have had the full cooperation and enthusiasm of Roger and his wife, Chaz.

Some people think it's because '24' was jump-started by what happened on 9/11. That was never why we made the show. We started production six months prior to 9/11, and we'd already done ten episodes.

Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground.

The DC 9/11: Time of Crisis film was hard to get the part; I had to audition three times. It was very serious and very sobering. We studied and tried to re-create all the stuff that we all saw that day.

I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that they learn about it from my wife and me, in a deliberate and safe way. But it's hard to imagine ever feeling ready to broach the subject without some impetus.

On the morning of September 11th, I was literally about 18 blocks from the World Trade Center. I witnessed in person what a lot of people witnessed in person, but what the world really saw on the television screen, I saw it with my own eyes that morning.

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.

I had friends who died in the 9/11 tragedy; some of my friends lost family members in the aftermath of Godhra.

I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker.

For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.

The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th.

I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.

When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries.

However much a president wishes it, a national problem cannot be knocked out with a single punch. A president must work with the problem as much as against it, turn it into a solution if she can.

More people died on 9/11, in one day, at the hand of Muslim terrorists than during the Inquisition.

Legislative proposals are not merely vehicles for expressing policy, they are devices for getting policy decided.

One of the challenges of a good policy is trying to figure out what your priorities are.

Terrorist infiltration should be resisted not at the national level, but at the international policies level.

I like to make all kinds of shows and films, whether it's fantasy or big-popcorn, big-screen escapism or dramas based on real events.