David Shapiro Quotations

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

I don't necessarily believe in the ideology of cinema verité. I think by the very fact that you have a camera there you are affecting the story and you are influencing it.

There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.

We all have a family and I think we all have a perception of our family that we like to keep and we all have our positive memories in a certain way. Then when life catches up to them, when you see a different perspective of them, or when you are a couple degrees over, you can see things differently and it shakes you to the foundation.

Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.

I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

I love being a lawyer more than I like writing.

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.

I believe that sitting naked across from your adversary in a steam room makes negotiations more productive.

I wouldn't have been as frustrated by my lack of high-speed access if the entire area around me also couldn't get it. But around here, almost everyone else already had high speed Internet service. At work I was the only one stuck on dial-up service.

I felt like I was the only one in the world left on dial-up.

There is a strong chance that we will get a rate cut shortly and that will define where our market goes. The market is not at expensive levels. Money will still shift towards equities rather than stay in cash.

Listed property receives rental income. It passes on nowhere the kind of growth a business might have. Listed property delivers more or less a fixed return. People buy these stocks for yields, but they do make capital growth over time.

We needed time to analyze the situation. We are not closed for business.

You look at the velocity of tenants out there looking for space, and you can see it's gone up quite a bit. I think it's just a matter of time when the rates bump up.

Putting pictures of kids on trucks is a great idea. The broader the reach, the more people who actually see this picture, the better the chance that someone will know that child, have seen that child or know what happened to that child.

It's not only the stadiums that will need to be built, there's a lot of catching up to do in maintenance.

I'm big on saving, but big institutions are not promoting savings. If one of the big money managers launched a savings fund with very low barriers, they'd have to be prepared to take a hit on profits and they don't seem ready to do that.

I just felt like they weren't governing like they should.

He's the kind of person who will get a second lease of life. He may be out now, but he's the kind of person who has a definite knack of getting people to back him.