Thoughtful Content Quotes

There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.

I think the documentary is something that people are hungry for, that it embodies careful thought, nuance.

All tweets are tasty. Any tweet anybody writes is tasty. So, I try to have each tweet not simply be informative, but have some outlook, some perspective that you might not otherwise had.

People think I appear on television to promote my image. That's not fair. I hate filming. I turned down 'Strictly Come Dancing.' But television is a wonderful opportunity to promote scientific ideas. 'Super Doctors' is a very thoughtful piece.

To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

I've always believed that no subject is off-limits as long as you can find a way to make it significant, thoughtful, and interesting.

Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.

I like character-driven stuff that shows humanity and something that can make people think.

I see young people being dismissed for supposedly wanting only "stupid" and "easy" material, or that they don't have an attention span longer than three minutes. I disagree with all those statements; I just think they aren't true. I'm saying that our generation wants stuff that is substantial and challenging, as well as thoughtful and endearing. Well, I don't know if I'm doing that, but I'm trying.