Quotes About Introspective

I make films to explore concepts and raise questions, not tell the audience what to think.

I am not, by nature, an explorer or an adventurer.

I am expressive but secretive about my emotions.

I think my blog is fairly circumspect and elliptical. I've written personal essays, but they are short and to the point: in and out, and that's that.

I always thought I was a fairly meek individual.

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.

I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.

I don't know anything about tech, but I do know something about slightly socially crippled and overly cerebral guys.

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

I was studious and bookish. Not just as a child but also as a teenager. I took myself too seriously.

I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.

As a teenager I was severely, cripplingly dramatic and in search of self.

All my favorite artists were pretty serious in the sense that their music was something I could sink my teeth into, from Peter Gabriel to U2 to these artists that made me want to read the lyrics and dig into it.

I wasn't a friendly child. I was reserved and mostly kept to myself. My family tells me they've noticed a sea change in me after I've grown up. But I guess that's natural. Your surroundings, friends, college, etc. do make a lot of difference to your personality.

I don't normally watch myself on the telly.

I'm really honored that Bon Iver gives me a platform to do whatever I want, but there's only so much time you can spend digging through yourself before you become insular. I'm not in a hurry to go back to that temperature.

I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it.

She lived alone and talked books not babies;

on being somewhat antisocial- "You have less people at your funeral but you get more reading time.

So here I am walking around with another person inside of me. Though I think I put it better the day we parted when I said there is a third person we have created from the two of us. And I am stalked now by that other entity.

I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable!

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

I feel how little it concerns me, everything that's called the world, and how grand and exciting what I privately call the world is to me.

It's gradually becoming "serious," my situation, I realize this.