Marc Forster Quotes

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.

I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.

I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.

I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don't know the structures of a place, you are unencumbered.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment.

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.

I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.

It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.

In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it.

You cannot watch yourself dispassionately.

I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox somehow. I have to care, I have to have skin in the game.

I try not to make it personal, and I don't care about partisan politics one way or the other.

I don't pay too much attention to the positive reviews or the negative reviews because if you believe one, you've gotta believe the other.

Everybody expects you to be qualified to talk about your films, but in a way, you're the least qualified person to talk about them. When you're finished, you don't watch them at all.

I try not to get impressed. I just try to look at what I see.

My uncle was famous for his balanced point of view. At the time of which I am writing (when he was nearly seventy) it had become so balanced, that the act of balancing seemed rather automatic.One had only to offer him an opinion for him to balance it with a counter- opinion of exactly the same weight, as a grocer puts a pound weight against a pound of sugar.

To see some truths you must stand outside and look in.

I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

I would recommend that any writer get off their ass at least once and just try it. Directing is a completely different set of muscles. It also affects your writing because, once you start directing, you tend to write your scripts with directing in mind.

It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.

Objectivity is very hard to achieve. It needs some research and patience. If you want to do something honest, you have to explore it a little longer.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.