Quotes About Introspection

When I entered the film industry, I didn't know anything about acting.

I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.

I don't know any filmmaker who can deconstruct their own work.

Whenever you make a movie, when it's done, as a filmmaker, you never sit there and say, 'Boy, I really got that right.' It's, 'Where did I screw up?'

I'm not trying to prove myself a great filmmaker. I don't know much about filmmaking anyway. I'm trying my hand at it to see if I'm any good.

That's the problem I have, I don't have a filter. It's something that I'm working on.

I've finally become an old guy.

I worked in finance for 14 years, and I loved it. But after the financial industry, I thought a lot about, 'Do I love what I'm doing?'

I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

Most of my world is in London, and I feel like this is where I went mad and ended up finding myself.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

Finding yourself can affect how you think about your appearance.

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

I realized that there's this fine line between being personal and being general and being alienating.

I'd rather point a finger at myself than others.

If you are going to point a finger, you point it at me.

Confidence can be elusive because you don't know you've lost it. It's not something you can put your finger on.

I am not going to point fingers at anyone and dissect why their shows didn't work.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.

Once I finish a film, I don't ever see it again. Never ever. I have never seen any of my films since I finished them.

I love movies where the explosions and fireworks are happening inside someone's heart and mind instead of outside.