Quotes About Isolation

I'm a very private person, and perhaps this can be mistaken for aloofness.

I won't even let anyone in my house. I'm a private person.

I am a totally private person. I don't go to Bollywood parties.

I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I felt very lonely: my mother thought I was extremely difficult and my grandmother was extremely severe.

Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They're mollycoddled; they're highly privileged.

We behave as if being alone were a problem.

During isolation, one can bring a different approach to the creative process.

The process of speciation is completed with the cessation of genetic exchange.

My favourite place to write is at my desk in my house in the mountains of Crete. I produce more there because one big distraction is missing: the Internet.

When I'm acting in a film that I'm not producing, I stay to myself.

I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.

When we're in production, it's 14 hours a day, and we couldn't be less involved in the world. My friends all hate me during that time because I can't see anyone. We say goodbye to everything.

I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation.

L.A. has great business opportunities for my film and TV production company and acting career, but it can be a very lonely place.

Writing is a lonely profession.

You never meet other screenwriters because it's such a lonely profession.

One of the reasons we stay so alone in our lives is because we're ashamed to talk about the hard stuff. It's as simple as that. We're all in pain in different ways, and we don't get the help we need because we're too ashamed to talk about the pain.

Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

Staten Island is like a different world. If you're from Staten Island, you're like not from New York, you're from Staten Island.

My father always kept me in a very different world, a very simple world.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

There is a definite loneliness in the game. Most people stay away from you since they think they're intruding upon your time. And after the ball game, when it's 11 o'clock and you want to eat dinner some place, the restaurants are closed.

If I'm in a room with 100 people, will I be able to find one person I'd like to have dinner with? Probably not.

As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much.