Mika Quotes

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

I write a lot about myself.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

I find myself a fascinating subject.

Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

I didn't know you could write about yourself. Nobody ever told me about this.

I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.

I don't think I necessarily am prepared to write about anybody else's life but mine.

I've never been a confessional writer.

But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the personages. In fact, I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person singular.

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

I'm really bad at describing my own life.

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

The 'Glass' is not my autobiography, nor is it self-expression. Far from it.