Quotes About Obsession

I'm a stuffed rabbit collector.

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.

We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.

When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid.

I'm a big stupid history nerd.

I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

The subculture of hot sauce is so fascinating and unique.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.

I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.

I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'

The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.

I think the whole definition of a geek is somebody being passionate and focused, and being proud of saying that they're passionate and focused, on a narrow range of subjects.

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.

I listen to a lot of Sublime. Dude, I'm obsessed with Sublime. You have no idea.

When you look at almost every submarine movie, to some degree or another, there's this 'Moby Dick' element, this Ahab element to them.

The Democrats' obsession with scandal is out of touch and decadent. People want substance, not scandal.

I still want to direct. That's my main love, and that comes from being obsessed with subtleties and people.