Isadora Duncan Quotes

I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

My role in the business is to use my judgment. All these years of experience have given me a clear head, and I can give a nonpartisan view with a sense of distance.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

The interesting thing is that when you start out, people have no judgment and they see you young and fresh as a filmmaker - and because you have no experience yet, you're much more naive and think anything is possible.

I'll never be able to listen to anything we've done like someone who's just picked it up for the first time.

There is no human objectivity.

Write about what you know, that's what I say.

To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it.

I don't know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I ain't even never been to a wedding.

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

I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

If you are writing something, you automatically create a certain distance. It can be very little. Even within the same city you imaginatively have a certain distance from your subject, and at the same time, you have to have a connection.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it.

Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent.

I try to tell the story, always. I do not want to be part of it.

I don't prejudge issues. I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me.

It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.

No one is a good judge in his own cause.

I am not a politician and I think that is a plus.

It helps to have “has beens” on commissions because they have no political ax to grind.

Honest truth is I didn't really know from year to year what people were making. I think that was the best perspective to have.

I see my role as sort of an informed outsider.