Quotes About Introspection

I look at someone's face and I see the work before I see the person. I personally don't think people look better when they do it; they just look different.

We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode.

It's not that I don't enjoy other people, but what I find with writers is this back and forth. And also, there's no need to talk about work.

I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.

A lot of my work is process-oriented. I delve into my work and sit alone in silence and work with the material and process it, like talking to yourself.

I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself.

I don't need to worry about that, that's always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.

When I see people talking on the internet about me or my work it's almost always more a description of themselves and so I never really think of myself as anything more than just who I always was.

When I look in the mirror, I see a work in progress.

There's a sense of knowing when to stop and take a break from things, to step back from the work you're making, and of changing things up to keep them interesting for yourself.

I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.

All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. Its kind of self-therapy.

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

I really do work in solitude.

I don't understand myself in relationships and I don't understand relationships. So to continue to explore them and to try and work that out is honestly what I am really doing.

My favorite time is late at night. I seem to wake up and want to work after 10pm, in my bubble of night.

I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.

It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.

As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work.

Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.