Quotes About Meaning

As a writer, I try to turn my feelings and experiences into a different form entirely, something that gives me mastery over them and also makes them meaningful to other people.

I can't hang out for roles but if something meaningful comes my way I don't say no.

I will only sign on the dotted line if I feel my role is meaningful.

My job is to make meaning. To make meaning in a meaningless world.

Words take on many different meanings.

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.

I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.

Acting meant so much to me.

It's really live television, the way God meant it to be.

I know that movies are basically meant to be entertainment, but I'm not that interested in entertainment.

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.

I'm far more interested in putting a little more meat into the lyrics than some people are.

Certain songs mean a lot to you, and they don't really resonate with anybody else, and the ones you don't necessarily love are the ones that become really meaningful to a lot of other people.

Some songs just resonate with you.

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.

I don't even understand what 'retirement' means.

I actually hate lyrics, and I hate it when they're quoted in reviews. I don't think they matter that much; it's the sounds of words - not the words - that I look for.

But when people emotionally connect with what you're trying to do, or it resonates with them, that's a huge reward.

But while I am proud to be an American, I am ashamed of what the Trump administration is doing in our name. It is literally rewriting the meaning of America.

Films are fun, but life is much richer.

Never use dogs to symbolize anything. That is ridiculous. Always ensure that any dogs are just dogs; i.e., characters in the story who happen to be dogs.

If you're not doing it for the right reasons, then you'd be dumb to be making documentaries.