Quotes About Meaning

I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.

What I keep searching for in movies, more and more, is the right gravity.

If you just add all the time, add more and more light, it loses its meaning.

In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.

I feel that cinema, if made entertainingly with a certain meaning, reaches out to a lot more people. It makes them aware of issues or things that help people to understand what's around them.

When I'm sitting around, I'm thinking about how I can make my next professional career move, but more than anything, I'm thinking about the meaning of life and how fleeting it is.

Mortal experiences give us the opportunity to assess what we are doing with our lives.

I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.

Ultimately, I think, as humans, we all care deeply about our life's legacy, and contemplating our own mortality is the only real way to approach that question of legacy honestly.

The name Downhere comes from a song I wrote after a friend of mine died in college, and it was kind of the first time I was dealing with loss and, you know, real mortality, and it was a song of how down here on Earth, we don't have the big picture.

My family is the most beautiful thing in my life beyond anything else, even music.

The most important thing is to have something important to say and finding the means to say it.

Lyrically, the most important thing for me is, how can I tell a cohesive story?

To me, the essence of the music is the most important thing.

I watch mostly every martial arts movie... I really like movies that aren't just martial arts. I like movies that have spiritual meaning behind them, like samurai movies, or movies that have meditation.

The last thing I want is for people to go through the motions in life. We're all meant to do different things, but there's a lot of opportunity for us to do some great things.

Be motivated by something beyond simply money or glory.

If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.

Understanding motivation is one of the most important things we can do in our lives, because it has such a bearing on why we do the things we do and whether we enjoy them or not.

I think it's important for everyone to understand that if you have a background and culture... to really use that as motivation to fuel the fire. It brings meaning to what you do. It's not just sports - whether it's in the classroom, in the office or whatever it may be - it just brings passion and excitement out when there's meaning behind it.

The gift of clever phrasing may be a curse unless the phrases are put to the test of sound, practical application before being uttered.

For it is so with time and memory: the seed of our deepest feeling is buried under the rush of a momentary and violent one, there is in all feeling a quality of deception and evasion, and the meanings of the spirit become evident only in the light of a dispassionate distance

Everyone feels that void. Everyone who has the balls to look inside themselves, anyway. It's what life's all about.. A search.

I try to find meaning anywhere I can. It's the only way I know how to validate my existence.