Quotes About Meaning

I feel that when you connect something that you do, especially serving food, and connect that together with words - I think it's very important.

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.

Film is a game of projections upon projections, and the projected image on the screen is a game of light and shadows. There is nothing there; it is the brain that is decoding those things. The film doesn't have any decipherable kind of meaning if it's not seen.

I feel like I'm not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?

If you become famous but haven't actually achieved anything, then your life has no real meaning - unless you're spectacularly shallow.

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

My family thought - and thinks - very seriously about words. About language and what it means and how it shapes us and how it should shape us and change us.

I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.

I don't shop as much as I find.

I never go to parties. I never go to premieres. You can't play that game, because it's short-lived and you want a life.

You don't write a book to show off.

I wanted to show people that there's nothing wrong with trying to make something sacred.

This is really showing me what certain movies mean to people.

Because I'm not doing it for the money, I'm doing it because I feel like that story needs to be told or clarified, or something needs to be shown about that.

Awards can't be what's important in your life. Because that only affects you in a sense. Life is so much more than that: It's your family and your friends and that sort of thing.

I think at the end of the day you have to find a balance with what's really important.

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.

I tell people Baltimore is lucky to be rid of the Colts, they're so lousy, but I don't mean it.

I think that Damien Hirst putting a shark in a bath of formaldehyde is nothing.

I was always taught to be grateful, and so the question came early: What is there to be grateful for? Why is life supposed to be so good? That's still a question I try to answer all the time.

If I ask you, 'What do you want out of life?' and you say something like, 'I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like,' it's so ubiquitous that it doesn't even mean anything. Everyone wants that.

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.