Andrew Haigh Quotes

Initially, I started writing music because I wanted to express my thoughts and get what was going on in my head out to the world.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

My work is therapeutic: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Woodsman' and 'Shadowboxer,' because I don't go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films.

Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.

I write about what I'm going through.

I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways, I'm trying to make something that helps make me happy.

Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

I just know what I go through, and I know how to speak on it in an interesting way.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

'M Train' is as close to knowing what I'm like as anything. I don't know exactly what the book is about. All and nothing, I suppose.

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

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

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

I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.

My music is about my life. If it's something that I've lived, then it's something that I've written about.

Everything I write is about me.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

I'm interested in pursuing roles that allow me to push against my own walls, my own constraints as a human being, and to find out where I'm capable of going. In real life, I'm not very good at feeling emotions, so I like to do it through my work.

I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.