“And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.” WellsDoneDealsSubjectsTerribleNutsWell DoneUnderrated Author:Eli Wallach
“I'm sure there are people in Hollywood, whose main drive in film is to make money, who will feel that any use of the word hijacking or any reference to anything violent or remotely associated with the terrible tragedy that occurred will lose customers for them. And that will be the only criterion that will matter and so they'll force the minions that work for them to remove these things from their movies, or not make movies about that subject.” PeopleFeelsMatterUseFilmForceLosesSubjectsTerribleHollywoodTragedyCustomersViolentMaking MoneyRemoveCriteriaMinionsHijackingTerrible Tragedy Author:Woody Allen
“The seriousness or otherwise of the subject matter is often irrelevent to the question of whether a book is any good. F Scott Fitzgerald wrote a great and beautiful novel which mainly involved shallow people going to parties in a rich guy's house. By contrast, all sorts of terrible books are published every month about men slaughtering people for no reason - a serious matter which, in itself, does not make the author worthy of serious consideration.” PeopleMenDoeBookMatterReasonBeautifulGuyHouseLanguagePartyNovelRichSubjectsSeriousMonthsInvolvedTerribleWorthyConsiderationNo ReasonContrastShallowSeriousnessSubject MatterScott Fitzgerald Author:Declan Lynch
“Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is in a direction that allows terrible follies to happen, and the terrible follies have terrible consequences.” ThinkingPlayBigsHappensForceSubjectsHugeTerribleConsequenceFollyCustomsMomentumAccounting Author:Charlie Munger
“I feel like a lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the interview. Then as soon as they actually sit down with that person, they basically ask the questions they think journalists are supposed to ask, and they start viewing themselves almost as a peer of the subject. Like they're going to become friends. That's why most celebrity journalism is so terrible.” PeopleThinkingWantFeelsWritingPersonsIdeasAsksInterestingSubjectsInvolvedTerribleJournalismJournalistInterviewsPeersInteresting Ideas Author:Chuck Klosterman
“Although I am very interested in the subject of human misjudgment - and lord knows I've created a good bit of it - I don't think I've created my full statistical share, and I think that one of the reasons was I tried to do something about this terrible ignorance I left the Harvard Law School with.” ThinkingKnowsHumansReasonSchoolLawLeftBitsLordShareSubjectsIgnoranceTerribleHarvardLaw SchoolHarvard Law School Author:Charlie Munger