Quotes About Self-reduction

The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn't knowingly bear such reduction, so we've tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing.