Preoccupation Quotes

I haven`t come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply do something different. Others had much better think of the form as being some sort of classical tradition and try to work within it.

I`ve discovered I`ve got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

There`s a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

(All this leaves the minister with little time for writing songs.) I haven`t even thought about it, ... It`s a very different, drastic kind of time that you have to give to writing music. So for three years I haven`t even considered it - the last song I wrote was before the ministry. But now, as my routines become a little more controlled, I`m gathering momentum again. I might be reading documents for work, for instance, on a plane, and an idea comes and I write it down on the back of the page. It`s not a preoccupation, but I`m letting it come, slowly.

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world`s first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.

Play has been man`s most useful preoccupation.