Quotes About Reflection

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.

Appallingly, I hadn't thought about it one jot. I never daydreamed as a little girl of getting married and having children. I was as surprised to discover I was getting married as I was to discover I was up the duff.

I'm always coming back with too much footage. Most filmmakers do, but I'm always surprised that it keeps happening to me.

When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people - along with despair about its future.

I'm still surprised to be an author. I wonder what I'll write next?

I think everyone, including myself, was pretty surprised the first Freedom goal came from me. So when I think about that goal, all I can really do is laugh at the incredibility of it.

I'm still always surprised that anyone might be interested in my work or me.

'Fresh Eyes' was my own little discovery of having been in a relationship for a while and realizing that my favorite part of it is being surprised.

I'm quite surprised I ever got married in the first place.

In all my childhood, I never heard my grandparents say that anything shocked or surprised them. They knew what their country was capable of.

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

It surprises me that more people don't take a look in the mirror a little more often and assess their own relationships.

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

Some days you think nothing surprises you anymore and other times I'm thinking I can't believe this journey and how it went down.

It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.

I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alice In Chains have done that on every record. It surprises me. I don't go in there expecting that, but I do go in there hoping for it.

It always surprises me when people say, 'I don't regret one thing about my life. I wouldn't change anything because it's all led me to where I am today.' I would want to change certain things that have caused others pain.

I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.

It's actually very surprising how little we think about the quality of our decision-making and how we could improve it. How absent decision-making classes are from educational curricula. How little we think about how it is we think.

Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.

One of the things I admire about longer stories is the way writers can work with dead time and slower, more idle moments - not only can they feel expansive, they feel lived-in; the unhurried pacing often makes the endings even more resonant and surprising for me.

I think the most surprising thing about giving is it takes a while to find out what you're really interested in and what you really want to do.

On different projects, different pieces of you will show up. Sometimes it's surprising which piece shows up.

The most surprising thing I discovered was how rich of a life I've led. It's easy to forget all the things we experience throughout our human journey.