“Making movies can actually be quite boring, there's a lot of sitting around and waiting. Unless you really believe in the story and love the character, and unless you really need the money, I don't see the point in doing it.” NeedsBelieveCharacterStoriesWaitingSittingAnd LoveBoringSitting Around Author:Jeremy Irons
“People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.” PeopleWorldMindToolsMake SenseUncertainty Author:Michael Lewis
“People dislike uncertainty so much that they will impose an order on it even when it doesn't exist.” PeopleOrderUncertaintyDislike Author:Michael Lewis
“In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt.” PeopleKindLeaderDoubtCertaintyExpertsAdviserOverconfidence Author:Michael Lewis
“I'd say part of the appeal of Trump is that he's presenting himself as a totally certain, infallible person.” PersonsCertainTrumpAppealsPresentingInfallible Author:Michael Lewis
“You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before.” WayGivingMindCertainPiecesInformationAnchors Author:Michael Lewis
“When something happens people didn't predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable.” PeopleIfsWayHappensThings HappenPredictable Author:Michael Lewis
“Donald Trump got almost 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton! He happened to get more in some of the right places. It was just like one of those things where a stock going up and people impose a false sense of order on it. It's really more intellectually honestly viewed as a disorderly process.” PeopleOrderProcessMillionsHappenedTrumpVoteClintonHonestlyFewerRight Place Author:Michael Lewis
“I always find with my stories that the way they start is that I just get so interested in a person that I'm compelled to go back to them over and over until I learn more and more about them, without even quite thinking it's material for a book.” ThinkingWayPersonsBookStoriesMaterialsCompelled Author:Michael Lewis
“I was really interested in a pretty simple thing: what happens when someone tries to introduce moral considerations into Wall Street, what happens when someone wants to actually demand of himself and those who work with him that what they do is not just profitable but good and useful.” WantTryingHappensSimpleMoralStreetsWallDemandConsiderationIntroducingProfitableSimple Things Author:Michael Lewis