Quotes About Meaning

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

Not just art for art's sake, but I want to have films out there that will provoke authentic, holistic conversations about the human condition. And not provide the easy answers, but put it out there.

Is it possible that the collective global psyche of the world is like an overloaded modem and can no longer meaningfully communicate, comprehend, or listen to anything or anyone else?

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem.

There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.

I think the only way we can really get you to laugh hard is if we take it to a deep psychological place. It has to resonate with you on a really deep level in order for you to really do that good guffaw.

I loved the study of psychology. I didn't love seeing patient after patient. I was perpetually overstimulated, busy decoding everything I took in.

It's impossible to tell how you're perceived. I think it's important not to think about it too much, because it really means nothing. Some people think we're a rock band, and that's ridiculous, and the idea of us being a folk band - you sit in a pub in Ireland and hear those guys play, and you're like, 'Yeah, we're definitely not a folk band.'

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.

The mere fact of my novel being filmed means very little to me. For a long while after 'The Crimson Petal's publication in 2002, it looked as though Hollywood was going to adapt it.

I always wanted my work to speak for itself, and have opportunities to do interesting work and not just puff pieces.

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

I don't know that I could ever really pull off Ferris Bueller because that was done in such an iconic way already.

People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to.

No shade, and shout out to Lil Pump, but on a track like 'Gucci Gang,' he's not really saying much.

I've said this many times: I don't care which hero punches which hero to get the Infinity Jockstrap or whatever. I do care that people find humanity in these stories, and maybe something connects, makes the world a little better for having read it.

Purchased experiences don't count.

People want to connect with what they're purchasing.

The most important thing, to me is the intention of where things come from, like, why did you use it? What were the intentions of what you did? And if the intention is good, the intention is pure, then everything will turn out good.

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.

There are many kinds of truth. But truth communicated by beauty is the only pure one. The only one that touches me in the heart.