Brandon Ingram Quotes

When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.

It's easier to shut yourself off outside than reveal your inner thoughts.

The most confronting thing you can do is talk about your feelings and open yourself up.

I've never been an embarrassed, 'never talk about their feelings' sort of person.

Where you are tender, you speak your plural.

I'm just not very comfortable talking about my emotions on a normal, day-to-day basis.

I internalize everything, keep everything inside. I'm not used to spilling my guts, and when you have to do that on film to make a point, it's hard. It's rough. I don't think it's as easy as people think.

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

Anytime you work with materials that are deep parts of yourself, you feel revulsion at showing things about yourself that you don't want people to know.

You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.

It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.

I don't hide anything about myself, so I don't find it difficult to talk about things that happen in my life... But at the same time, I don't like putting myself out there too much. That's how I am.

I tend to find you have to be fairly vulnerable to get something... to get a perspective worth having. Which can be controversial. But I find telling someone what you're thinking about, what you want, and what you're afraid of can often help them give guidance.

I'm not good at opening up with people.

I don't like to write about myself. I like listening to people.

Seeing guys in their most vulnerable state talking about their bodies gives me an opportunity to talk about everything. Once they open up about their appearance, then usually they are willing to open up about pretty much everything.

I felt the need to be more open and expressive of my feelings, not just about the hills and the countryside, but about the daily life.

Coming off 'Reflection,' what we really wanted to do was be more vulnerable.

I try to talk openly from how I feel. People may not agree with it. It may sound foreign to them. That's an uncomfortable position for some people, to be sentimental, nostalgic - it's all kind of the same.

I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.

I was constantly being told I shouldn't talk so much about how I was feeling. They seemed to think I was giving too much away to my competitors. Showing signs of weakness. But I've always thought that was rubbish.

I'm not very good at talking about my emotions.

When I put my first project out ages ago, I didn't want to show anyone my emotions. Now I think it's better for people to understand how I am as a person and let them relate.

That's one good thing about the way life is, that no one can know you if you don't let them.

There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.