12 Quotes by Charles Ferguson

I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I’d jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie I should try to make.

A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to be improved.

I used to be a businessman and I enjoyed what I did and I thought that it was socially useful. I don’t have anything against business or private enterprise or capitalism per se, but I think that it is time to rethink the regulation of capitalism.

I’d been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies.

Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult.

It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which to work on our current problems.

A vast engine of wonderful delicacy and intricacy, a machine that is like the tools of the Titans put in your hands. This machinery, in its external fabric so massive and so exquisitely adjusted, and in its internal fabric making new categories of thought, new ways of thinking about life.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

I’m actually all in favor of freeing the entrepreneurial spirit – but it turns out, interestingly, that you actually need very strict regulations to free the entrepreneurial spirit.