Quotes
Authors
James Gunn

"Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle that "nothing is what it seems"). I did start with some essential ambiguousness in the aliens' motivation and the questions this raises in human minds, which I consider to have been disregarded in Contact (novel and film). That, in part, may be what has delayed the writing of the fifth and sixth novelettes in the series."

-- James Gunn

#Motivation Quotes #Writing Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Avoid getting wrapped up in things - especially status purchases - as these often come at the expense of people and relationships.”
“There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.”
“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.”
“I think there's a lot of hope in my work. I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films. Some more than others, but there's definitely... I think we want to convey the feeling of hope with the montage at the end.”
“You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around.”
“There are no more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of Nature, find work for the poor, and wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.”
“From the earliest colonial days [in America], local governments took responsibility for their poor. However, able-bodied men and women generally were not supported by the taxpayers unless they worked.”

Source : Thomas G. West (2000). “Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America”, p.132, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
“Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.”

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