Quotes About Introspective

'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.

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

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

I'm such a first-person writer.

I guess I was just always one of those guys who asked those fundamental questions: 'Who am I? What's this for? Why? What does this mean? Is this real?' All these pretty basic questions. I like making movies about people who are self-conscious in that way, and are trying to feel their way through the world.

I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.

I don't particularly have a wide social circle.

My life has been wild enough to derive all of the stories you need out of it. I've been through many, many years of behavioral problems, so I don't really look outside for stories.

But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.

Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner.

One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard.

I have a tendency to become very self-critical.

I'd be the first to say that I'm a distant individual. I have a tendency to come across as being aloof and dismissive.

'Tender' is my most strongly autobiographical play.

I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way. I dwell on the same things over and over and I try to figure out different ways of looking at the same issue.

I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go.

The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.

Yo no soy un perverso, soy un curioso de esta fuerza enorme que está en mí.

Sobre la felicidad no dijo una palabra, supongo que porque la consideraba algo estrictamente privado y acaso, ¿cómo llamarlo?, pantanoso o movedizo

I'm a helpless, recovering introvert

The last thing a monster wanted was a fellow to follow him around all day long with a mirror.

antechamber with the same unsmiling abstraction.

It won't do, gentlemen. I'm a solitary sort, I get chaffed by too many elbows.

That is morality,I make myself imagine that it is personal.