Quotes About Meaning

People follow my movies for a reason, and that's because I believe in them, and I don't want to just make movies for the sake of making movies.

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.

Information wants to be useful.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

Ultimately everyone, no matter who you are, we all at our core want to just know that we matter.

It is important to understand what are you trying to capture with a camera. What you want to use this tool for. It helps to begin to search for and concentrate on thematic photography.

Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.

To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what I want to communicate.

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.

The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy.

It's not fair. It's not. But then, that's the game. It makes life great. The fact that it ends when we don't want it to. The ending gives it meaning.

If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.

It doesn't mean anything when we go back to Sydney and its round one and we're starting from scratch in the NRL. That's the one we really want.

In our culture right now, I want to take on this notion of what a singular success means. We think success is one thing, but it's actually a spectrum of where our life takes us.

I actually live a very mediocre lifestyle. So I decided to step back and do things not just for the sake of doing them, but because I believe in them and I want to do them.

What would possess a family where's there's a husband and wife to want 12 kids or 18 kids? That's just what they feel is meaningful to them. Their family. Expanding a family.

I think my song about 'I want to have your babies' really does freak a lot of guys out, not just my boyfriend!

I would say that the emotional content of the film [Swiss Army Man] took me by surprise, and sometimes I would probably want to capture the unique tone of it.

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.

There are some movies that I remember a couple of seconds and I want to carry those couple of seconds in my heart forever, or wherever it is, and that's worth it.

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

..I love your name. I don't want to cheat myself out of a single syllable.