Quotes About Meaning

I've had many uncanny experiences. I think it's hard to be alive and not have them. But I don't know if I can decide what that means or what they are.

Things explain each other, not themselves.

You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.

I need to be able to explain myself in context.

I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.

I tend to explain my songs.

There are movies I've seen or books I've read that attach themselves in a way that's greater than the ability to understand why. How do you explain that kind of connectedness?

I want my music to do the explaining.

Mark Ruffalo is Mark Ruffalo - no explanation needed. He has the biggest heart of anyone I've ever met, and he's sort of the Dave Schultz of the entertainment industry.

I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.

Every time I get a role, or the opportunity to explore a role, I look at it, and I think, 'What is the story we're trying to tell here?'

It's our potential for good stuff I'm most interested in exploring, but that has most meaning when juxtaposed with things that can go wrong.

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

I think poetry is able to say things in such a small, perfect way that are so hard to say. I think it's a perfect medium for expressing difficult ideas and concepts and feelings. It's one of my great loves.

I'm not a writer just to be a writer. I want to say something that really needs expressing.

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

I think its dangerous when people think theyre being expressive. Yuck. Its like people who say theyre spiritual, innit. You make the work you want to make, and you get on with it and hopefully it connects with other people.

Actually, Hogan is an extension of what I used to do on radio.

With 'Extinction Machine,' I wanted to start some conversations about whether we're alone in the universe and what that might mean.

I always think, 'What does this picture mean? What's the best place to put my camera? Do I have anything extra in the picture, things in the background that will distract? Am I in the basic position that will give the essential things for this picture but not too much?'

For me, the value of music is the value you extract from it.