Quotes About Meaning

I really realize the more movies I do just how important - it's so cliche when people say it, because everybody says it nowadays - but it's so important to keep it grounded. I totally understand what that means.

When you use Google, do you get more than one answer? Of course you do. Well, that's a bug. We have more bugs per second in the world. We should be able to give you the right answer just once. We should know what you meant.

I collect objects I fall in love with more than antiques per se. Value is not a criteria that attracts me to something.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.

It really doesn't matter whether it's an ensemble cast or it's a lead or what is perceived as a commercial or non-commercial or an offbeat film. None of that would matter, what really matters is the story and who's telling the story.

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

Those of us who make movies play with perception and reality; those who watch our films are responsible for making sense of it.

Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable.

The lyrics are what I work on the hardest, but I'm not trying to make a perfectly clear message or anything like that. In fact, I'm usually trying to avoid saying something too directly, because usually that rings false anyway.

It's better to do your purpose imperfectly than to do someone else's purpose perfectly.

I think the name perfectly encapsulates my soul, and so I get to be myself with the safety of a different name.

Language and poetry are endlessly fascinating. The most brilliant work can be so sparse yet so full of meaning. That's what I'm looking for in a song: imagery to describe things in ways that are perfectly concise. I'm constantly trying to find one hard, crystal thing.

To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.

My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren't enough to fill my soul.

It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.

In the digital world, we have forgotten the meaning of 'persistence of vision'. Art is something we have to hold on to.

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

I must say that I recognized at once that we had never understood the meaning of these words, so common and yet so sacred: Justice, equity, liberty; that concerning each of these principles our ideas have been utterly obscure; and, in fact, that this ignorance was the sole cause, both of the poverty that devours us, and of all the calamities that have ever afflicted the human race.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

The Universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.