Quotes About Privacy

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

I only ever privately tell people stuff for the scene. And I often ask what they feel is right. Normally, by the time that we're filming, if it doesn't work, it always the script.

When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.

I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.

I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.

There's always been something illicit about the way I work. I'm photographing people I don't know, when nobody else is home - there's a necessary degree of secrecy.

You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone.

Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops.

Being confronted with the realization that work you intended to benefit people is being used against them has a radicalizing effect.

In liberal societies we don't typically require citizens to rearrange their activities, their lives, the way they go about their business, to make it easy for the police to do their work.

Don't ask a writer what he's working on. It's like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

It's nice having your work recognized but having people follow you around is kinda weird.

I'm a very private person. I don't go out much. I'm home with kids. I go to work. I don't really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.

There's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

With my son, I work very hard to keep him away from the press and media and I want an opportunity for him to lead as normal a life as possible.

The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.