Quotes About Meaning

People say, 'When are you going to do serious stuff?' I look at them as though they were crazy. My serious stuff is my comedy. That's how I make my points.

A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.

It is not about classical career questions but about questions for your life. Those are the questions that drive you on as a human being.

You can say a lot of things to someone while being pretty clear between the lines.

I love lyrics that are not too clever.

'Once Upon A Time In America' is one of the cleverest films of all time, because you can get out of it whatever you want to get out of it.

It's a cliche that music rises above it all, and it's a cliche for a reason - it's very often true.

Cliches are what make you understand something.

Endings don't have anything to do with what your movie is about. Now, there is an emotional climax, there's an emotional resolution that is 100 percent important. If I get that wrong, get your money back.

To me, it's just not that important whether someone climbs the Eigerwand in ten hours or in three.

I've done a lot of shows over a long time, and I've lost my voice on plays before, and it's because I've been thinking closely about what I'm doing with my voice. Babies can scream all day and never lose their voice because they just mean it. As long as you mean it, then it carries you through. It's do it or don't.

Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God.

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.

I think 'Chhichhore' is the film that's closest to my heart - it's a very entertaining film with a lot of soul in it.

Everything I own in my closet has a story. Stuff is not just stuff - things were given to me with love.

I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it.

With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounded conversation. And writing is not bounded. That's what's hard about it.

I don't believe anything's a coincidence.

I don't really believe in coincidence.

There aren't any coincidences. I think things really happen for a reason.

Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.

I wanted to sing about things that moved me and experiences I had collected throughout life.

For me, more than general box-office collections, what really matters is that I am doing something that I enjoy and love.