Quotes About Meaning

There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

Music is completely not reality. There's nothing about music that has any meaning at all. A lot of people disagree with that, but it's basically true. You can listen to a piece of music, and fifteen people will give you fifteen answers of what it's about.

We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.

Legacy is really important to me. It's more important than dollars to me. So with that said, I try to find the fights that would solidify my legacy.

Everybody fights for money, of course, but I wanted to leave a legacy when I retired, get my name in the history. I don't think like that anymore. When I lost the belt, I saw how reality is. Champion means nothing.

I have never been able, really, to figure out where my life begins and where it ends. I have never, never been able to figure it all out, what it's all about, what it all means.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

I've always felt I want to be of service to the world somehow. I haven't yet figured out how to do it, and I may never figure out how to do it.

That's a part of success: figuring out what success means to you.

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

I'm convinced we all have a God-shaped space in us, and until we fill that space with God, we'll never know what it is to be whole.

'Mekhi' means, sort of, one who loves water, and the relationship with water and how water is important to life... It's a sense of being needed and purpose - you know, we have a purpose on this earth, and we're here to fill that.

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

A film should always at least be about something.

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

But I kind of reframed my thinking, where I don't feel like filmmaking is what defines me anymore. Like, I feel like I'm much more defined by my family and other things in life that, that I feel are much deeper to me.

It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.

Finding meaning in your work is your responsibility. Any job can be better when you actively work to find meaning in the work.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

There are a lot of laughs in this movie, but it's not just about the laughs. It's really about the story, about a guy who finds his soul and realizes what's truly important.

I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.

When you finish a song, your first thought is going to be, 'Is this song a hit?' I hate that we think that way, because it kind of takes a little bit of the meaning out of the songs that are being written, but you're definitely going to think, 'Can this song be put on the radio?'

I'm not a really firm believer in theatre that is 'about anything.' I don't think theatre can be about anything other than the people who show up and the value that they hold.