Quotes About Introspection

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.

I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.

It's very important to me to understand myself and my place in the world. My films help me with that, and the more people see them, the more I am making a statement.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.

I'm not really into the statements kind of thing.

It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with a dog-eared, text-heavy paperback, immersed in the statistics of crime and punishment and lunacy, completely alone with the narrative of human depravity.

The only kind of influence I want to be on anyone is by being, constantly and consistently, someone who probes herself at every juncture, improves the way in which she functions as a citizen, and questions the status quo.

I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head.

I don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.

I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.

Relationships are important, but stay focused on all the things that are important. Figure out what you want.

I stayed out of the Hollywood limelight wherever I could. That was never something I was comfortable with. That was something that had to be dealt with rather than something I wanted.

When I was 19 years old, I quit football completely. For about a month, I stayed at home in a depression. This was in the summer of 2008.

The reaction to 'Dev D' success wasn't a balanced one from my end. I ran away! I should have stayed around and seen how I could balance things. But I wasn't capable of that.

I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.

Like everybody, I've stayed up at night regretting things - Why did I do that, say that - but at the end of the day, I really do believe everything happens for a reason.

I stayed at home and loved my own company because I was just petrified of everybody else my own age, which I think a lot of people are.

You have high school photos and stuff, but to have a recording of your voice and your work from 20 years ago, it's a kick in the head to hear how you've changed and what you were interested in at the time and how it's either changed or stayed the same.

The one feeling that settled in and stayed there for a long while, and I still deal with, is guilt. I was there. I was a part of it. Why does it have to be like this? Was I responsible? Was I the reason Dale was in that position? I'd ask myself that question and look around at people and wonder if they were thinking that, too.

I think part of being an actor is staying private.

I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.

I have no particular formula for staying private.