Quotes About Meaning

Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn't be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.

I like the action business. I like the action movies. I guess Hollywood wants to see me do action. So I am down. I like it.

One figure can sometimes add up to a lot.

I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.

I'm interested in telling stories that add up to more than the entertainment of the story. That's what does it for me.

To add something to the world should be the question, not not adding something to the world.

Adventure with a purpose is what we do.

What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.

It's not hard to create a song, but to write a song that's really going affect somebody? That takes a hell of a lot of time.

I don't believe in an afterlife.

Afterlife, in my mind, is pretty much nothing. This is it. This is what we get, for me.

I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.

I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning behind words all day.

I don't like allegory.

Everything for me becomes allegory.

I like to use horror as allegory.

Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.

I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.

Andy was not a director and not a writer. He operated the camera a little bit, and he wasn't even so good at that.

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere.

At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.

The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.

I think a film should be appropriate to what it's trying to say or the characters in it.