Top 96 A J Ayer Quotes
#1. All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel.
Margaret Ayer Barnes
#2. The movie has to be going somewhere. Other than that, you want it to be entertaining, but people usually disagree on what entertaining is and everybody has different tastes.
David Ayer
#3. You can't go back. Once it's done, it's done. I'm sure there will be things that I would love to change, in the future, but each movie is a snapshot of its time and the resources, and you do your best on it.
David Ayer
#4. I went to Samuel Ayer High School, which is now Milpitas High School.
Grant Show
#5. It was a distortion, a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience, Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achieve.
David Ayer
#6. That's the world of policing. I've met some bad-ass female cops, who are very cool people.
David Ayer
#7. I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.
A.J. Ayer
#8. The hardest thing, as a director, is that it's never right. Nothing you do is ever right. It's never exactly how you envision it. Making a movie is about making it better.
David Ayer
#9. 'Sabotage' was a work for hire. It wasn't my original idea or script or anything.
David Ayer
#10. David Ayer is one of the best directors I've ever worked with. He's a true man's man.
Scott Eastwood
#11. [If] you want to learn something about somebody, get into a fistfight. You'll learn more in five minutes than you will in five weeks of conversations. It's basic.
David Ayer
#12. In the writing phase, normally I try not to envisage any particular actors because I like to let the characters sort of reveal themselves in that process.
David Ayer
#13. I will have clients rather than people who just give me orders
Francis Ayer
#14. The worst part of directing is always seeing the first assembly. It's devastating. It really is. It's like going into the delivery room and you can't wait to see your baby, and it's a crocodile.
David Ayer
#15. For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie.
David Ayer
#17. You don't want to get too far ahead of the audience and you don't want the audience to be ahead of you. So, that balance is difficult and it takes a lot of work and tuning in the edit, to get the right balance.
David Ayer
#18. It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
A.J. Ayer
#19. It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.
A.J. Ayer
#20. The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one another's customs and opinions; respect for one another's rights and feelings; awareness of one another's needs.
A.J. Ayer
#21. I'm a big fan of Italian neo-realism and all of that stuff.
David Ayer
#22. I think nothing has been filmed as much as World War II.
David Ayer
#23. The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.
A.J. Ayer
#24. Southeast Asia food uses many different types of spices which are quite new to me, like the curry leaves which I saw at the Kreta Ayer wet market in Chinatown. With such spices used in cooking, this usually imparts a strong aroma to Southeast Asian food, which appeals to the senses.
Joel Robuchon
#25. Actors are like magicians. They'll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It's very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible.
David Ayer
#26. Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements.
David Ayer
#27. I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.
A.J. Ayer
#28. I screen tested for Training Day many years ago, which was David Ayer's script with Antoine Fuqua directing.
Joe Manganiello
#29. You make a movie and it's like convincing people to go on an expedition with you. You think you know where it's going to end up, and you're hoping and guessing. But, when people trust you and get involved, based on that trust, it's a really nice feeling to be able to have everything pay off.
David Ayer
#30. I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.
A.J. Ayer
#31. It's a great shame that the world was organized with two sexes. It makes for a lot of trouble.
Margaret Ayer Barnes
#32. His argument, as set out in The Problems of Philosophy, was based on the empirical fact that we are not only aware of things but are also, very frequently, aware of being aware of them.
A.J. Ayer
#33. I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always want to challenge yourself.
David Ayer
#34. There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.
A.J. Ayer
#35. When I make a movie, it's almost a relief to get shooting 'cause the hell is over, or part of the hell is over.
David Ayer
#36. Ayer may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity.
James A. Haught
#37. It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of any non-animistic religion cannot be demonstratively proved ... [A]ll utterances about the nature of God are nonsensical.
A.J. Ayer
#38. It's important for me to take very famous, well-known people and not have them play themselves and not have them be seen as themselves.
David Ayer
#39. I'm all about real drama, real performance, and real people, so my twist on this is: I'm creating a family, a brotherhood here. I'm creating a very real chemistry and I have this incredible ensemble of actors led by Will Smith, who are basically playing dimensional characters with lives and souls.
David Ayer
#40. I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in - the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better to believe in nonsense than in nothing ...
Margaret Ayer Barnes
#41. 'Fury' whetted my appetite for a bigger canvas and this idea of world creation. You can do amazing things as a filmmaker if you have the proper tools, and those are time and money.
David Ayer
#42. Genre expectations can kill creativity. If you do something different, it will get hated. The best filmmakers can do everything on the approval list and knock it out of the park. For me, I have a hard time being creative when I have to color in between the lines.
David Ayer
#43. Stories of friendship are very interesting to me. Artificial families are something I like to explore. Whether it's a bunch of guys or a bunch of ladies, there's something interesting about that.
David Ayer
#45. I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter.
David Ayer
#46. You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of filmmaking and that's why you make movies, for an audience to, hopefully, enjoy it.
David Ayer
#47. When you put a movie together, you're continually screening it for yourself and you're screening it for other people. It's like a video game power meter. When the power bar starts going down, you've gotta look at what's going on.
David Ayer
#48. While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
A.J. Ayer
#49. Well, as far as film, either you're making a film or you're making videos. Digital capture is always trying to emulate the range and look of film. I believe personally that film has more.
David Ayer
#50. No moral system can rest solely on authority.
A.J. Ayer
#51. World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing.
David Ayer
#52. 'Sabotage' was an opportunity. That was journeyman work, but the irony is I learned more off that movie on what filmmaking is and isn't than everything else combined. A lot of lessons, and it will impact me for the rest of my career.
David Ayer
#53. You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different, and critics say we make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different, and you get kicked in the gut for it.
David Ayer
#54. When you talk to people who have been in combat, there's a sensory overload that happens. The color becomes vivid. Sounds become more pronounced. People talk about how, for them, the war was technicolor and real life was black and white after the war.
David Ayer
#55. I think great acting is about inhabiting a skin and transforming yourself.
David Ayer
#56. Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?
A.J. Ayer
#57. Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of belief or unbelief, faith or unfaith, is logically impossible.
A.J. Ayer
#58. It is an undoubted truth that the neck and throat of a highbred woman are incomparably more beautiful than in the woman of lower origin. Blood will tell; there is no disputing it.
Harriet Hubbard Ayer
#59. Actors want to act. I think a lot of times what happens is that they're expected to bring it all. Probably because I'm a writer, I'm not telling them what to do. I just provide them with as much as I can.
David Ayer
#60. If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it is only a significant proposition that can be significantly contradicted.
A.J. Ayer
#61. I'm a veteran, and I come from a family of veterans and people who served in that war. And the stories that I heard were a hell of a lot different than the movies that I was seeing, so I wanted to make a movie about the people that were really there.
David Ayer
#62. I think that's what makes David Ayer really interesting. He likes to make a tough-y movie, but actually he's a character director. He's fascinated by the actual people who decide to have these jobs and the way it affects their lives.
Mireille Enos
#63. As a writer, you have to be willing to kill your darlings, and I'm a writer first. As a director, I've got no problem cutting the scenes.
David Ayer
#64. If you want to know somebody, fight 'em. Have a fistfight with them.
David Ayer
#66. We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express.
A.J. Ayer
#67. Even logical positivists are capable of love.
A.J. Ayer
#68. When one buys a pair of shoes, one is buying three things, the right shoe, the left shoe and the pair.
A.J. Ayer
#69. Ideals are peaceful, history is violent.
David Ayer
#70. My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.
David Ayer
#71. There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person.
Margaret Ayer Barnes
#72. The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.
Margaret Ayer Barnes
#73. Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.
A.J. Ayer
#74. I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.
David Ayer
#75. The movie on the screen is always going to be different from the movie in your head. How it makes you feel is what I'm after, what I'm chasing, and what I'm trying to construct.
David Ayer
#76. I've been in the game long enough to know what elements you have to package together to get a movie into production.
David Ayer
#77. A movie is a certain thing by definition. There's nothing wrong with knocking out a good genre picture.
David Ayer
#78. The worst pressure is the pressure I put on myself.
David Ayer
#79. Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated
old-fashioned.
Margaret Ayer Barnes
#80. But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.
A.J. Ayer
#81. It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.
A.J. Ayer
#82. For me, I like to show what guys are like when no one is looking and how we really are, and that we can be emotional and have these emotional lives. I think it would be great to do a film where we see some females and what's going on there when we're not around.
David Ayer
#84. Every movie is different. Every movie requires its own sort of photographic voice.
David Ayer
#85. No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
A.J. Ayer
#86. 'Colors' is pretty good. It takes you inside the cop car bit. I like reality myself. I like reality-based kind of movies.
David Ayer
#87. I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking.
David Ayer
#88. Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"?
Margaret Ayer Barnes
#89. Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.
David Ayer
#90. We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.
A.J. Ayer
#92. The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.
A.J. Ayer
#93. I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.
A.J. Ayer
#94. All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington ...
Margaret Ayer Barnes
#95. The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper.
David Ayer
#96. To predict tomorrow's weather, I need not take into account the state of mind of the Emperor of Manchukuo.
A.J. Ayer
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