While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.
Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing its job if everybody agrees with what it does.
I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.
'Sound of My Voice' is an amazing film. Small, simple, yet incredibly thought provoking.
It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.
I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor.
Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.
I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.