Quotes About Introspection

I like the cut of my gib. I dislike the way I move.

I've never disliked a character I've played. I've always tried to find the humanity and the reasons for what he does.

I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.

I'm not one for a public display of my life.

My work is always on display, and my life is always on display when I make my work.

I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.

I don't like to discuss my work in a lot of detail; I'm afraid of dissecting it in a way that is not good for me.

I'm all about dissecting everything.

I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.

If you go into something saying, 'I'm the bad guy,' you do yourself a disservice as an actor. It's always about trying to find the humanity in a character.

I thought it would be interesting to write a song about a lonely person who is scared to see the truth that is right in from of him. I thought it would be interesting if you could watch yourself from a distance.

If you knew the real me, you'd want to keep your distance from me. Seriously.

Breaking up is just hard, even if you're the one breaking up. It's not fun. It can be dramatic and complicated. And then you get a little distance and you think, why did it have to be so complicated and dramatic?

I always felt that when people found things that they didn't like about me, it seemed to distance them from me.

It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.

I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.

I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.

I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.

I think in today's world, we're so busy, and we're so distracted. But it's also really important to slow down.

It can be a little distressing to have to overintellectualize yourself.

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

To me, directing movies is just that. It's a need to question myself and set the things that disturb me on the table.

I always, by an involuntary act of defensiveness, return to my everyday self: so, I find, have I withdrawn from writing about experiences which have most closely concerned and disturbed me. I have been deflected by my own reticence.

I don't think I'm a diva.