Anatole Broyard Quotes

Sometimes I make certain assumptions but find they're not immediately obvious to my players.

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

Private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity, even when the content of them is meant to be in jest, can result in offense where none was intended.

I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.

Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood - and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte.

I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.

I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.

The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence.

People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated.

When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.

I think good books have to make a few people angry.

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns out to be misinterpreted. I've had such an earful for so long, it's gotten tedious. I figure if you stay away from it, you're safe.

I feel like everything with me gets blown out of proportion. I think it's because I'm so quiet about things that people just run with anything they hear.

Sometimes the wrong thing is said or things don't come out the way they were intended.

When someone has an opinion, even if it ends up misquoted, people jump on it.

Sometimes our passion will motivate us to say things that can easily be misunderstood.

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed. They are not fully aware of the effect my work has on them, but they know it is disturbing.

How many of you guys in your own experience with women have learned that no means yes, if you know how to spot it?

The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.