Quotes About Subconscious

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

A piece of my training program is doing exercises to force myself to work in an unconscious or a subconscious realm, as opposed to a conscious realm.

I don't think there is any kind of magic about what I do. All of the connections are there, somewhere in the subconscious or in the collective unconscious. If I let the elements speak to each other, then these coincidences will happen. And they do happen. They happen all the time.

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.

The unconscious is much smarter than the conscious.

'Subliminal' is about how we misinterpret our behavior because we're unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing.

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.

When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes from a deeper place. The same thing happens when the actors go, take after take, and just get lost in it. When you're in a house, you don't think about being in the house; you're just there.

I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.

How art works is really interesting. It comes from our unconscious, a lot of it. And were communicating in ways were not completely aware of when were making it.

I did undergo hypnotherapy, and it didn't work! The guy couldn't put me under. I was very disappointed. I was very keen to be suggested, to have somebody tell me to run naked or cluck like a chicken or whatever, but it didn't work for me, I'm afraid.

We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

The fact of the matter is that nobody understands what John Coltrane is doing except John Coltrane. And maybe not even him. So we're all experiencing it on this subconscious level.

A lot of artists I like end up being queer. Or maybe it's a subconscious thing that you can identify of, like, 'Oh this person understands the nuances of the romantic narrative of a queer person, or the social narrative of a queer person.' And then you discover, lo and behold that they are a queer person.

Who hasn't had the 'I went to school/work in my underwear' dream?

Whenever I work on a role, I always allow it to subconsciously take me to a place that is magical and unexpected, rather than consciously driving it to a place.

Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?