Ashwin Sanghi Quotes

Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing its job if everybody agrees with what it does.

I like movies as a viewer that challenge me to actually think rather than spoon feed everything to me.

Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.

I was hired by the 'Tom Joyner Morning Show' to do commentary that makes people think. I want my audience to feel like they are learning and not being pandered to.

In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself.

I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?

I don't really care if people get upset. I think I'm doing my job if people get upset; I want them to think! We all want them to think, hopefully.

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.

Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience.

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

The best books are the ones that ask the most questions.

The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.

I won't call my work entertainment. It's exploring. It's asking questions of people, constantly. 'How much do you feel? How much do you know? Are you aware of this? Can you cope with this?' A good movie will ask you questions you don't already know the answers to. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It questions the established order of the mind. It is radical, by which I don't mean that it is either leftwing or rightwing, but that it works at the roots of thinking.

I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.

One hopes that with a book or movie, the reader or the audience will emerge from it thinking. That's the most you can hope for: that you've raised questions that will be there for the audience to think about later.

Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.

It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.

I don't think all comedy should be mindless. Have something that's thoughtful. Maybe some things are tongue-in-cheek; maybe some things are very direct. I like that people have to think about things. That excites me. Because if you say certain things, it starts a dialogue. Even if you disagree, it's still a dialogue.

I like to write about things that fascinate me because I believe that they will also fascinate my readers as well.

Brilliant opinion. I’m looking forward to reading it.

I like the gray movies. I don't know if audiences always... it makes them work a little harder. And they have to work hard in 'Hoover.'