Quotes About Privacy

I don't like talking too much about my personal life, but it all goes into my work.

The telephone is an antiquity - you never know who is calling, there is no image, it is an outmoded product which constantly disrupts work.

I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment.

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

I prefer to work alone – except in the bedroom. (Steele)

But I don't like working on lyrics publicly in the studio - I prefer to take them away and work on them in my bedroom.

I don't discuss works in progress.

I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don't like to talk about other people's work work-in-progress.

Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work.

I'm constantly struggling in interviews to engage and finish sentences, because I am being asked personal questions from somebody I don't know.

When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.

How do you manage your online identity? It's something I talk about with my students all the time.

I don't want a lot of people nosing round my studio and bothering me. I don't want to see them at all. Let the dealers have all that bother.

My home studio is my private instrument for me only. It's not intended to record anyone but me.

In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak.

My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.

I write about so much personal stuff, it's like reading my diary.

There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.

For men, privacy means not being told stuff that would hurt. For women, secrecy is having stuff go on behind your back.

Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.

I'm not for the publicity stunts. Leave my son out of the publicity stunts.

It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.

Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in 'E.T.' My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you can't go anywhere.