Quotes About Introspection

I'm normally a really humble guy.

Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.

I sort of felt like being young was normally written about as being very fun and light-hearted. And I think that's true, but I don't feel like there's a lot of songs about how hard it is when you don't really know who you are or what you want, and you feel like you have to apologize for simply just existing.

When you go through those hard times, that's when you ask those questions that normally you wouldn't. If you win, you don't ask questions. You don't worry about it.

Normally, it's difficult for me to watch a movie that I'm in.

I normally write in the first person, and my narrators are as real to me as any of the people I have worked with. They live and breathe in my imagination.

Normally I sleep in until 7, and most days, I go right into the office. On Tuesdays, though, I stay home and do work. I need a day when I'm not in meeting after meeting. You need time to try to get into your head again and see what's next.

Normally, the action is just a gratuitous thing. In the case of Bourne, he was going to learn about himself in the action scenes.

When you get in some people minds, they won't think how they normally would.

Normally in life there are all these distractions but in lockdown all that stuff was gone. You were forced to just sit and think. Creatively, it had its benefits.

I don't follow norms in my life. They don't make sense to me. I do whatever I feel or what makes me happy and feels right.

North Carolina has been so great because nobody asks me about work.

In our day-to-day lives we're not very introspective - especially not British northern blokes.

I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.

I don't think I've got a problem with nostalgia, because a lot of the time things are self-referential.

I go back to St. Lucia, and the exhilaration I feel is not simply the exhilaration of homecoming and of nostalgia. It is almost an irritation of feeling: 'Well, you never got it right. Now you have another chance. Maybe you can try and look harder.'

I am not a nostalgic person.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

I'm not interested in the limelight.

I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.

The last thing I want to do is to write about real things. I am not interested in reality and in real human beings and their real day-to-day problems - I just want to say to them, 'Hold still, and I'm just going to unpack, see what's inside.'

I'm not interested in going and doing a big, action-adventure romp with nothing to say about being a human being.