Quotes About Distraction

My shows are meant to be entertaining, not educational.

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

I'm constantly taking calls and responding to e-mails at home, and I find it best to have that little work space. And then when you're not at that little space, it's not work anymore.

I don't answer my phone in a restaurant.

If a song I'm lucky enough to be a part of comes on the radio, it's definitely really cool and exciting, but I can't focus on anything but the song. Same if one of my songs comes on in a restaurant. I can't just carry on a conversation.

I feel like these days, people want to escape and let go when they're watching movies. They want to empty their minds when resting.

I don't read reviews. I find them very distracting, whether they're good or bad.

I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me.

I'm a higgledy-piggledy person in every way. On days that I work, I work for eight hours in a row, with my internet access entirely turned off, locked in my office.

I keep myself sane with stuff that's fun and not physical.

If I sat around thinking about acting all day, I'd lose my mind.

A lot of the time, it's hard to put your thoughts into what you're watching when someone is screaming in your headset.

If I take five seconds to think about something on TV, that five seconds is an eternity.

What is it about the blank page that makes me want to hurl myself into a game of solitaire? I ask myself these kinds of questions while I'm playing solitaire.

To distract myself from writing, I was singing Bob Dylan's 'My Back Pages.' You know, 'I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.' I thought, 'I should write a character like that.'

I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do. Every detail is so familiar to me that it makes almost no claim on my attention.

A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

When I start a new novel and find myself diverted by domestic activities, many of which I genuinely enjoy, I panic that I will never write another word.

I think I've ignored it so much so that when the paparazzi are following me I really don't see them. You don't see them anymore.

The only thing about sports is making sure you don't read the papers too often.

One of the great things about 'Jericho' that is a parallel with 'Over There' is, in this country, we tend to forget the news we don't want to know about. We're so oversaturated with media and other images that we can turn our head a little bit.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.