John Barry Quotes

I'm trying to look into each character and try to realize her as someone who is also me.

The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

I feel like everything I make is personal to me.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something that I can understand about each character's behavior.

I don't believe I've ever truly been in love because I don't believe that I've known myself well enough in the past to allow someone to love me.

My dad knows me better than anybody else. He probably knows me better than me.

I think I find a commonality between characters and the different sides of myself.

I think sex is really about the self, and really a self-reflection.

I like people, but to learn about one individual always appeals to me more than anything.

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

What matters is that someone—that you—know me that well. When a person can see into your soul, it's hard. It forces you to be open. Vulnerable. It's much easier being with someone who's just more of a casual friend.

When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.

I know you even under the skin.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

I try to find some similarities between myself and the characters, even if it's the tiniest thing.

Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.

Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.