Zobel Quotes

#1. Whenever I send a book by parcel post and the clerk at the post office asks me, "Is there anything dangerous in the package?", I'm always tempted to answer: "Yes -- ideas.

Dave Zobel

#2. Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.

A.O. Scott

#3. I was so enthused with literature -- not stuck on literature, but in love with letters -- that I was easily inclined to bring all the conversations round to works I had read or fictitious characters from my readings about whom I loved to talk

Joseph Zobel

#4. Writing is a totally different brain than directing, at least for me. With writing, you're trying your best to foresee all the problems before they happen. It's more architectural in a weird way.

Craig Zobel

#5. Page8 / FOREWORD by Philip Hofer:
"His problem is space, not inspiration; time, not initiative.

Fernando Zobel

#6. I've collaborated with artists that truly run the gamut: from members of the Wu Tang Clan and Capone, to Moby, Lady Gaga, and opening for artists such as Sheryl Crow, Jack White, and Chris Shiflett of the Foo Fighters, etc.

Wendy Starland

#7. You're alive, you might as well be glad.

Neil Diamond

#8. When I'm directing, I can look at something that I wrote and say, "This doesn't make sense." There's a lot more intuition and gut involved.

Craig Zobel

#9. It's interesting that people who can perpetrate cons have talked themselves into believing that they're not doing anything bad. That they tell themselves that there is nothing wrong with what they're doing is the crazy thing about human behavior.

Craig Zobel

#10. I believe that any sort of changes to interface that allows people to get into games and enjoy games is a great trend.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#11. About 80% of women diagnosed with breast cancer do not have a single relative with breast cancer.

Kristi Funk

#12. The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#13. Nor did I share the anxiety with which each one measured up his chances of success.
The subjects taught at the lycee did not inspire me in the least. I worked for working's sake. I endured them.

Joseph Zobel

#14. I dream of a Digital India where quality education reaches the most inaccessible corners driven by Digital Learning.

Narendra Modi

#15. Kindness is the daughter of love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. Forms of expression that unnecessarily specify gender are widely regarded as sexist. In technical writing, sexist usage is easy to avoid.

Justin Zobel

#17. I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird.

Craig Zobel