Quotes About Reflection

If you ask a filmmaker to analyse his own film, it would take three or four years to do that, honestly. Because when you make a film, you have to be convinced about it. You are married to that film for a year.

I believe that one has to be convinced with what they are doing, and I have got to learn from every opportunity that has come my way.

There were a lot of bad relationships that got very convoluted up at Columbia with me, what they expected from me.

Once you make a cookbook, you live with it as your own for the rest of your life, like a yearbook.

A cookbook is a moment in time because, otherwise, you look back at the end of the day, and all the meals have been eaten, and the experience is gone.

My cookbooks are like a personal journey for me, they're like a chapter in my life.

One of the most meditative times of my day is when I'm cooking.

My appreciation for cooking and healthy living came from watching my best friend die from liver cancer in 2008. I realized that I needed to make some big changes if I wanted to be around for a long time, so now I'm more cautious of how much I eat, what I'm eating, and how often.

The number one job for me is to make people laugh. If I can also make people think, then that's a cool thing.

Sarah Cooper sounds like a character on 'The O.C.,' who was written out in season two, and it's like she moved into my body and gentrified my whole personality.

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years.

I wish you could see a new Cro Cop, 15 years younger. I wish it was possible.

I think I have made too many cop films.

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

The loss of my dad gave me a lot of inspiration because sometimes I stop and think, 'Would everybody have done the same thing that I did?' It was a very tough thing to cope with. I only went home for less than 24 hours.

I don't own copies of my own movies.

I really struggle with my anxiety, I have done since I was a child. When I look back into it, I don't know what happened to make me the way I am, but it's definitely affected my anxiety levels and I've spent most of my life looking for coping mechanisms.

My name was Lightning Kid; it was pretty much a copy off of Dynamite Kid.

After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.

I'm a big fan of Nora Ephron, who believed everything is copy, and I agree.

I am not above copying what other people are doing well.

All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.

We all make mistakes, and sometimes the difference that we forget is that the people we read about in the paper and on the Internet and see on TV, behind that is, at its core, a mistake.

Go and experience life the way that someone else might experience it. Maybe you'll find meaning in a different corner of your brain. The fact that it changed doesn't negate the fact that it ever mattered.